Upon auscultation, the characteristic dry, sonorous râle of ordinary bronchitis may be detected along the windpipe, and in the bronchial tubes.
But louder than the rain and more sonorouswas the great rush and roar of the river below, as it poured seawards, swollen to a torrent of flood from these persistent rains.
Then the light and the tremulous note were explained too, for suddenly the window started into brightness, and a couple of seconds after a sonorous roll of thunder followed.
This verse is remarkable for its sonorous phrases and the archaic forms of the words.
I, singing, will touch the sonorous instrument, and thou, rejoicing in the flowers, dance and give pleasure to God the powerful.
His strong and sonorous voice, his pleasing address, his eloquence, and the freedom with which he attacked prevailing vices, made him a distinguished preacher.
His expressive countenance, his noble air, his clear and sonorous voice, captivate the hearers.
Julien leaned against the trunk of a tree, listening to the sonorous voice of Reine, and could not take his eyes off the singer.
At certain moments she fancied they were not of themselves moving, that they were really being carried away by the force of the "Marseillaise," by that hoarse, sonorous chant.
And meantime the wailing of the bells grew more sonorous in the quivering atmosphere, lulling Miette's slumber even as it had accompanied her passionate fever.
He first threw himself back, then took a spring, and finally fell upon the sonorous bronze as if he wanted to crack it.
Around them the radiant morning hummed with mirth; a wave of warm light, sonorous with the buzzing of insects, beat against the old wall, the posts, and the curbstone.
And the crowd flowed on ever amidst the same sonorous wave of sound.
Miette was climbing over the wall, running to him, shaking with sonorous laughter.
Amidst his dream of universal happiness so dear to the poor, the words liberty, equality, fraternity, rang in his ears like those sonorous sacred calls of the bells, at the sound of which the faithful fall upon their knees.
So long as the little army was descending the slope, the roar of the populace thus rolled on in sonorous waves broken by abrupt outbursts which shook the very stones in the roadway.
At the Annex, with Alice Greggory and Arkwright, Billy sang duets and trios, and reveled in a sonorous wilderness of new music to her heart's content.
That Joseph Darlington, a native of New York State, and Thomas Darlington, a native of Missouri," read Jim with sonorous voice.
There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared his friend's passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorous Alexandrine.
He had a beautiful and a sonorous voice, and a manner of putting things which was irresistible to youth.
They swore and grumbled in sonorous Castilian phrases that had best be left untranslated.
Now and then would be heard the sonorous oaths of the Basque, as he savagely reviled his bad luck, or the triumphant chuckle of El Chico, whom fortune was favouring.
His eye turned reverentially to heaven, as in deep and sonorous accents, he implored forgiveness for the sufferer, for the sins committed during her mortal coil.
He was aroused from his slumbers, by the deep sonorous accents as of a man reading Spanish.
In 1473, our poet had addressed some verses full of sonorous but very ordinary flattery to the spendthrift Cardinal of San Sisto, Pietro Riario, on the occasion of his appointment to the archbishopric of Florence.
In a minute the two brass Napoleons opened with a sonorous spang, which drew a spontaneous cheer from the delighted infantry.
His voice had already sunk from a clear, sonorous bass to a hoarse whisper.
Going out under the tower, we heard “old Tom” ring out the hour in his sonorous tones.
But what struck me most was the sonorous and mellow voice which seemed to swell from the inmost depths of the soul, and a conversation the most extraordinary that I had ever met with.
It is dedicated to Queen Mary, wife of William of Orange, in a style of sonorous pomp, worthy of the court of Nadir Shah.
His breath was fast, and now and again he must needs check himself in his disposition to fluent soliloquy lest some one overhear in his sonorous voice such significant words as would reveal his intention.
She could hear even now in the tones of his voice, steadied and sonorous by the habit of command, sharp and decisive on the air, the words, "You are my prisoner!
It is sonorous because most of the vowels are full, because it is without composite diphthongs, because it has few or no nasal vowels.
His composure, they thought, might have been intended to throw them off their guard; but his deep, sonorous sleep rang true; it was as good as a cordon of sentinels.
A couple of other cars, too, came lagging behind, in deference to the speed laws, doubtless lured thither by the sonorous gong of the ambulance and the imposing official display.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonorous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
