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
- ‘I turn towards the direction of the stentorian voice.’
- ‘In his stentorian voice
- he told me a lot about Connolly
- unexceptionable stuff
- most of which I already knew.’
- ‘Until the government piled on its pressure
- 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.’
- ‘With his stentorian voice
- he regaled his audience with his good humour and reminiscences of his days in sports.’
- ‘He conformed to the social atmosphere of the time
- and his standard English stentorian tones are probably the result.’
- ‘He stood a moment silent
- and then - ‘I denounce this God-defying murder’
- he shouted; and his father
- if he must have disclaimed the sentiment
- might have owned the stentorian voice with which it was uttered.’
- ‘It was a privilege to be in thrall to those stentorian tones
- liberally laced with puckish humour
- which delighted millions of cricket fans for decades
- first on television and later on radio's immensely popular Test Match Special.’
- ‘Emotion is enhanced or deflated depending on what happens to be on the air
- whether it's the sexy beat of the Rolling Stones or the stentorian drone of an announcer.’
- ‘Standing up to unpardonable abuse
- the stentorian voice still comes back fresh and bright for ballad renditions.’
- ‘‘So
- how's it going?’ he said
- his voice so stentorian
- so loud
- that I wondered if he presumed I was deaf.’
- ‘Whether Nixon was entirely serious or merely trying to unsettle Kissinger is not altogether clear and
- in his thickly stentorian voice
- Kissinger replied: ‘That
- I think
- would just be too much.’’
- ‘‘Just so people understand
- this is an ear candle
- ’ says Ames
- in a stentorian deadpan that indeed suggests clogged ears.’
- ‘A stentorian voice told viewers that only George Bush's robust approach could protect them.’
- ‘The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside
- accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.’
- ‘How many times did one hear the indignant
- stentorian tones of some elderly lady or gentleman exclaiming
- ‘No civic sense!’’
- ‘Asking for a recount in these large
- Democrat-dominated counties left the Gore team fatally vulnerable to the charge that they wanted not all votes counted
- as Gore kept claiming in his stentorian tones
- but only all Gore votes.’
- ‘‘It's Superman’ became a catchphrase for two generations of listeners and his stentorian delivery was much mimicked.’