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How to use melodious in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Melodious means having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful. Example: “Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.”

Examples of melodious by meaning

adjectiveHaving a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.

  • Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.2013 October 13, Erik Adams, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Lisa’s Wedding” (season six, episode 19; originally aired 3/19/1995)”...

More sentences with melodious

  • The man sat down and started to pluck the strings to the melodious sounds of “Sir Patrick Spens.”2022, Roma Cordon, Bewitching a Highlander, CamCat Publishing, LLC, →ISBN. From the entry clàrsach
  • A sarangi player set the tone and Kalavati began to sing in her sweet, melodious voce; mridangam and sitar accompanied her.2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 145. From the entry sarangi
  • But few of us catch this melodious performance.2011, Joyce Ewing-Chow, Keeping Life Simple, page 19. From the entry dawn choir
  • It was four, as a matter of fact, ere a steamer with a melodious bargeful of hounds anchored at that landing.1909, Rudyard Kipling, Little Foxes: A Tale Of The Gihon Hunt. From the entry bargeful
  • Mac McAdams might not've added all those "ayes," but he spoke in such a melodious dialect that "aye" kind of came out understood.2005, George Singleton, Novel. From the entry not've
  • Then with melodious tootlings and amidst guttural plaudits, a big white automobile carrying a glitter of uniforms had gone by, driven at a headlong pace.1918, H. G. Wells, chapter 12, in Joan and Peter, London: Cassell, page 491. From the entry tootling
  • Poets in particular make use of onomatopœia—discordant or melodious sounds, heavy accented syllables or light unaccented syllables—to suit the ideas to be expressed.1910, William Murison, English Composition: With Chapters on Precis Writing, Prosody and Style, University Press, page 126. From the entry onomatopœia
  • Hello, all my friends out there in Radioland—this is your friend Melba Melsing, here to sing melodious melodies from faraway lands just for you. . . .1985, Gloria Vanderbilt, Once Upon a Time: A True Story, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry radioland
  • Music discoursed on that melodious instrument, a Jew's harp, keeps the elfin women away from the hunter, because the tongue of the instrument is of steel.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume II, Part II, Chapter V, p. 233. From the entry discourse

Meaning of melodious

  1. adjective Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.

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Questions about melodious in a sentence

How do you use melodious in a sentence?
Melodious is used as an adjective. For example: “Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.”
What is a short sentence with melodious?
“But few of us catch this melodious performance.”
What does melodious mean?
Melodious means having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.

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