How to Use mellifluous in a Sentence

mellifluous

adjective

• And Hollis’s troupe, in which God is played by a mellifluous blowhard named Larking, has good reason to doubt him.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Soft trade winds blew through the open-air nave, and worshippers sang hymns in mellifluous Hawaiian.
  — Annie Rogers, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2021
• His countertenor voice and phrasing—both mellifluous and frayed around the edges—convey anguish and hope.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
• Overnight in one of 22 stand-alone cabins, with nothing but mellifluous river flow as the soundtrack.
  — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
• Perhaps the vocal contrast between the mellifluous Lowe, 73, and the hit-and-miss Costello, 68, would have been too pronounced?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
• Even the quad exhaust tips out back seem cut from the same metallic cloth, though the soundtrack blasted through the pipes is more mellifluous in tone than the G63's machine-gun rat-a-tat-tat.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 17 Feb. 2022
• Film idol looks and a mellifluous baritone certainly are a part of his appeal.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2018
• Jeff Goldblum's mellifluous tones are coming soon to a podcast near you.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• Like prying open a crypt, even the narrowest crack of the lid released a sharp, mellifluous tang, potent enough to make your eyes water.
  — Jennifer Hope Choi, Bon Appétit, 19 Aug. 2020
• Her mellifluous sound, spanning two octaves, is part Snow White communing with the birds, part haunted theremin.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Over the next several years, Albrecht’s mellifluous word seemed to tap into a kind of angst about life on a warming planet.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• Despite the mellifluous tones of Morgan Freeman as the narrator in the film, the script is so badly written it’s a flagrant waste of his voice talents.
  — Michael Venables, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2011
• The group includes the warblers, canaries, larks and other mellifluous singers but also the strident (to human ears, anyway) crows and their kin.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
• Crucial Star and Kim Na Young’s gentle duet is a mellifluous take on the neither here nor there feelings of autumn, and equating romance with the dead leaves of the season.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2017
• Looney speaks in a mellifluous Texas drawl, wears bolo ties and cowboy boots and pilots his own plane to court hearings outside Houston.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• Even those that still see regular use may change over the decades, as time and vibration slowly alter their mellifluous tone.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
• Cassettes passed through teenage hands like mellifluous bearer bonds.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
• So what separates a professional voice artist from a civilian who sounds mellifluous on the phone?
  — Gavin Edwards, charlotteobserver, 27 Apr. 2017
• It must be spoken and performed, his mellifluous voice lulling among the wonders in order to underline, more starkly, the horrors.
  — The Economist, 15 July 2017
• Stories of one magnanimous soul’s power to sow seeds of light and grace that germinate and create a mellifluous echo across time and place.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023
• Rainey and Hoops showcased their warm, mellifluous tones, expertly shaped songful melodies and nailed the rapid passagework.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
• The path is more difficult for Martin, whose mellifluous tones were heard on Red Sox radio and then television broadcasts for 32 years.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• Blystone had an unrivaled talent for cutting to the truth in poignant prose that his mellifluous tones could lift and lay over his audience with the lightest of touches.
  — Nic Robertson, CNN, 18 Apr. 2018
• The unforced performances of the young stars, the mellifluous flow of the Creole dialogue, and the verdant charm of the unique locale make this a pleasantly worthwhile diversion.
  — OregonLive.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• The stories were later re-edited to delete such antediluvian tropes, but in the process they were made shorter as well; much of Wirt Benson’s mellifluous prose tumbled to the cutting-room floor.
  — Michael Callahan, Marie Claire, 9 Oct. 2019
• K-pop singer Taeyeon is ringing in the holiday season with a mellifluous new EP dedicated to all things Christmas.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2017
• Although rumpled and scruffy, Mr. Williams had a plummy accent and a mellifluous speaking voice that served him well in a surprisingly busy film career.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 5 July 2017
• The mellifluous-voiced actor’s more than 70-year career spanned theater, film, radio and television.
  — Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2021
• His songs are as peppy and mellifluous as his persona is honeyed and nonthreatening.
  — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2020
• Then there's Keith David, who would later join the show's cast in season 6 but made his Community debut here with mellifluous narration.
  — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024