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Example sentences for "stentorian"

Lexicographically close words:
stenographic; stenography; stenosis; stent; stente; step; stepbrother; stepchildren; stepdame; stepdaughter
  1. Mabel was about to invite her to cross, when her own name was called aloud in the stentorian voice of her uncle.

  2. He was a fine figure of the middle size, dark complexion and hair, piercing black eyes, an aquiline nose, an open and ingenuous countenance, a stentorian voice and strong physical powers.

  3. The noise continued to increase, and it became evident that the cause of it was rapidly approaching, for the sound changed from a distant rumble into a steady roar, in the midst of which stentorian shouts were heard.

  4. And then, when the touch of her in the flesh had dispelled his first horror, when the sight of the factor swinging grotesquely in the blanket had taken on the sense of reality, he raised his voice in a stentorian call.

  5. Now he strode to the end of the porch and raised his voice in a stentorian bellow that brought Uncle Jefferson shuffling around the path from the kitchens with all the whites of his eyes showing.

  6. At her step her mother turned her head: she was listening intently to voices that came from the garden--a child's shrill treble opposing Ranston's stentorian grumble.

  7. Her foot was already on the first step of the guillotine platform, when suddenly there was a great commotion in the crowd and a stentorian voice cried out: "In the name of the Republic, hold!

  8. This cry was uttered by a stentorian voice.

  9. It was he who had uttered the stentorian cry: "In the name of the Republic, hold!

  10. His stentorian voice shouted periodically in the empty street, "Which is the Casa Avellanos?

  11. He was the stentorian and impressive interpreter to them of a world they understood.

  12. In a measured and stentorian voice the king asked the following questions of the culprit: "Are you the handsomest of birds?

  13. The king then turned toward the council and spoke in an even, stentorian voice, as follows: "Gentlemen birds of the council.

  14. Warrenton, in stentorian tones, and the fickle mob took up the cry: "Locksley!

  15. The heralds repeated them afterwards in stentorian tones; and the rivals wheeled about, the white knights couching their lances from under the Sheriff's box.

  16. Also, the music was that of a familiar hymn, played upon a fine piano, which was taken up and sung by a choir of mixed voices, from the childish treble of the two little lads to the stentorian bass of Samson, the mighty.

  17. Here, the fat boy burst forth into stentorian blubberings, and was led forth by the coat collar, by Mr. Weller.

  18. The cry was to chair me to the Inn; I with a stentorian voice exclaimed "NO!

  19. Then the stentorian tones of Sergeant Harris proclaiming the views of "The Thunderer" on the Silesian situation rolled down the corridor and struck distinctly on the ears of the listeners in the hall.

  20. He was reading aloud in stentorian tones from a leading article.

  21. His stentorian anger afforded so material a contrast to the placid environment that Deacon stood dazed under the vocal avalanche, hearing but a blur of objurgation.

  22. In the midst of Ambrose's stentorian protests that the baby needed footwear, one of the losers forgot his breeding to the extent of claiming that Ambrose had introduced a loaded die.

  23. He thought he could have heard that stentorian voice very distinctly if he had been half a mile distant; but he did not make any reply.

  24. Dick, his stentorian voice ringing out loud and clear above the noise made by the excited savages; "if that wasn't well done may I never draw a bead on an Injun agin.

  25. Their gentle breathing and Hagen's stentorian snores were music in his ears.

  26. Just then a stentorian voice shouted through the glass window of the rickety door,-- "Bravo!

  27. The names of the roadside stations at which they stopped, which were shouted out with stentorian lungs, were such oddities.

  28. If the respiration of the dying man be not heard at a distance like a pair of bellows in Vulcan's workshop, and if his breath stop even for a moment, they proclaim with a Stentorian voice, that he has given up the ghost.

  29. When above the noise and rattle of the car--for a Ford always carries a rattle--you hear the stentorian command of the guard, instantly every stopping device is automatically applied.

  30. Many times our car came to a sudden stop as a stentorian "Halt!

  31. Knowing that the Gujarati had a stentorian voice, and that a shout would carry upwards from the water to the parapet, in a flash Desmond saw the possibility of a ruse.

  32. There was another sound, too a man's ringing voice, a stentorian voice which reached them clearly even at that distance.

  33. In a minute his stentorian voice was ringing out fearlessly into the vast arena; thousands of hearts were vibrating to his impassioned appeal.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stentorian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blaring; booming; deafening; forte; fortissimo; full; loud; ornery; pealing; piercing; plangent; resonant; resounding; ringing; roaring; sonorous; stentorian; strident; thunderous; vocal