How to Use stentorian in a Sentence

stentorian

adjective

• Lee brought a stentorian voice to the role, although early on sounded strained at points.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Mark Walters, cloaked in a cliched yet effective black leather trench coat, made a fearsome Don Pizarro, armed both with a knife and a stentorian baritone.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• The stentorian bass Franz-Josef Selig made a robust, good-natured Daland.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Kalmar employed a musical saw, which gave just the right subtle color -- similar to that of a theremin - to help break from the stentorian pounding of the first and third movements.
  — Alan G. Artner, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2017
• In this performance, the men of the impressive Westminster Symphonic Choir marched down the aisles of the hall, then stood there, in the midst of the audience, to sing that prayer with stentorian fervor.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 May 2017
• While his delivery was every bit as stentorian as promised, the quality of Rees-Mogg’s rhetoric and sly humor far outstripped that of the others on his own side as well as his opponents.
  — Will Collier, National Review, 17 July 2017
• On the eve of the game’s release, one fan stitched together a trailer, backed by a stentorian soundtrack, highlighting the variety of media that had been created.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2020
• But the music is drowned out by the stentorian instructions of volunteers in fluorescent green vests.
  — David Filipov, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
• The gravelly colorings of the bass John Relyea’s stentorian voice were ideal for Hunding.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• In his concurring opinion, the court’s newest justice dropped his usual folksy writing style for a more stentorian tone, one that evoked the stern language of his predecessor, Scalia.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 17 Apr. 2018
• His replacement as the Dutchman, Evgeny Nikitin, was monochromatic and stentorian, and his steely bass-baritone expressed none of the Dutchman’s anguish or mystery.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
• This leader should evoke MLK or Mandela, whose moral rhetoric was stentorian, all about delivering freedom to an oppressed people.
  — Titus Techera, National Review, 29 July 2017
• Propelled by a seductively stentorian rhythm, the piece gradually builds tension—the strings get heavier and heavier, and Meza's wordless singing digs in deeper and deeper.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 13 Oct. 2017
• Langen gives #2 a tremulousness that’s equally capable of bursting into tears or cheering with a stentorian peal.
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• Whitman then begins the prologue, singing in phrases that shift between stentorian declamations and plaintive passages.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• Sadly, Roberto Alagna, as Samson, started out the night wobbly and stentorian, and despite some moments of ringing power, his tenor shredded audibly as the night progressed, concluding with a painful yelp.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
• The transition to these new tones had been masked, so the tragic-hued change came as a gentle surprise, all the more effective for having being delivered without any obvious, stentorian announcement.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• Showerman is the least effective actor in the bunch, affecting a stentorian voice and officious manner that come across as parodic.
  — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2019
• But at times, McMaster, in a stentorian performance, almost seemed to be willing the administration onto better political ground with the strength of his rhetoric.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 May 2017
• The television journalists with their trench coats and stentorian inflections.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• As Ernesto, Harold Wilson, a stentorian bass, sang with impressive focus, carrying power and quiet charisma.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 9 July 2017
• This documentary offers an up close and personal look at one of Hollywood’s most compelling and idiosyncratic talents, a man with a stentorian voice and distinctive cadence who has transfixed generations of movie and TV fans.
  — Diane Garrett, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
• Unfortunately, Pressley’s stentorian affect detracts from the authenticity of the dialogue between Washington and his contemporaries, undermining Coe’s argument that the founders were people too, just like us.
  — Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020

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