Dictionary entry

Stentorian

Pronunciation: /stɛnˈtɔːrɪən/

Pronunciation

/stɛnˈtɔːrɪən/

Myanmar Meaning

ကျယ်လောင်၍ အင်အားကြီးမားသော။

Definition

stentorian /sten'tↄ:riǝn / adj ( fml ) ေအာေသာ၊ နက္ေသာ (အသံ)။ a stentorian roar.

Examples

  1. ‘I turn towards the direction of the stentorian voice.’
  2. ‘In his stentorian voice
  3. he told me a lot about Connolly
  4. unexceptionable stuff
  5. most of which I already knew.’
  6. ‘Until the government piled on its pressure
  7. the greatest deterrent to seeking preventive healthcare was the stentorian voice on the other end of the telephone telling a would-be patient that no doctor was available until a week on Friday.’
  8. ‘With his stentorian voice
  9. he regaled his audience with his good humour and reminiscences of his days in sports.’
  10. ‘He conformed to the social atmosphere of the time
  11. and his standard English stentorian tones are probably the result.’
  12. ‘He stood a moment silent
  13. and then - ‘I denounce this God-defying murder’
  14. he shouted; and his father
  15. if he must have disclaimed the sentiment
  16. might have owned the stentorian voice with which it was uttered.’
  17. ‘It was a privilege to be in thrall to those stentorian tones
  18. liberally laced with puckish humour
  19. which delighted millions of cricket fans for decades
  20. first on television and later on radio's immensely popular Test Match Special.’
  21. ‘Emotion is enhanced or deflated depending on what happens to be on the air
  22. whether it's the sexy beat of the Rolling Stones or the stentorian drone of an announcer.’
  23. ‘Standing up to unpardonable abuse
  24. the stentorian voice still comes back fresh and bright for ballad renditions.’
  25. ‘‘So
  26. how's it going?’ he said
  27. his voice so stentorian
  28. so loud
  29. that I wondered if he presumed I was deaf.’
  30. ‘Whether Nixon was entirely serious or merely trying to unsettle Kissinger is not altogether clear and
  31. in his thickly stentorian voice
  32. Kissinger replied: ‘That
  33. I think
  34. would just be too much.’’
  35. ‘‘Just so people understand
  36. this is an ear candle
  37. ’ says Ames
  38. in a stentorian deadpan that indeed suggests clogged ears.’
  39. ‘A stentorian voice told viewers that only George Bush's robust approach could protect them.’
  40. ‘The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside
  41. accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.’
  42. ‘How many times did one hear the indignant
  43. stentorian tones of some elderly lady or gentleman exclaiming
  44. ‘No civic sense!’’
  45. ‘Asking for a recount in these large
  46. Democrat-dominated counties left the Gore team fatally vulnerable to the charge that they wanted not all votes counted
  47. as Gore kept claiming in his stentorian tones
  48. but only all Gore votes.’
  49. ‘‘It's Superman’ became a catchphrase for two generations of listeners and his stentorian delivery was much mimicked.’