How to Use melodious in a Sentence
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His songs have a grounding and melodious rhythm that may just touch your soul.
—Annie Daly, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024
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The changes sound minor, but the W-16 is now more melodious.
—Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 17 Mar. 2022
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That doesn't mean fans of Jaguar's melodious, throaty V8 engine are out of luck.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 6 June 2021
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As her melodious voice carried through the room, Colin reached over and stroked Kennedy’s cheek.
—Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
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Some of the poets sang their verses like melodious songs.
—Mujib Mashal Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2022
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For our shared symphony of success is the most melodious tune of all.
—Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
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Standing at the edge, the three clergymen intoned a dirge, in a low, melodious chant.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
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At a time when most jazz singers had deep, husky voices, Olay offered a melodious, high-pitched sound.
—Mike Barnes, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2021
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For more than 50 years, the melodious tones of handbells have echoed from the sanctuary at First Baptist Church in Mooresville.
—Marty Price, charlotteobserver, 22 May 2017
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This is its own kind of triumph in an EV, where the lack of a melodious engine can magnify wind and road noise.
—Annie White, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2020
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But the melodious tones that graced the airways for over 30 years sound a bit different today.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 15 June 2018
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The soulful, melodious voice and effortless dance moves of Teyana Taylor had us all in a trance.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 29 Aug. 2023
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Singing along The most unique characteristic of the New Guinea singing dog is their singing, which sounds like a melodious howl.
—Kelly Wilkinson, Indianapolis Star, 27 Aug. 2019
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When one of these males impressed a female with his melodious bravado, the two got frisky in a soggy ditch along the roadside.
—Raleigh McElvery, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2021
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The melodious sounds are a vast improvement over the standard beeps, bings, and bongs in most vehicles.
—Anne Quito, Quartz, 10 Aug. 2019
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The melodious voice sounds like a Broadway star, and there are plenty of other clues in the costume that point to our prediction.
—Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2019
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Rev your way through first, second, and third and its melodious, wicked baritone is unleashed.
—Kevin Sintumuang, Esquire, 21 Sep. 2017
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Once the engine reaches 3000 rpm or so, the four-banger's machinations are less than melodious.
—Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2023
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Despite the tracks melodious sound, Boogie still is able to squeeze in some braggadocio bars in the quick, barely-three-minute track.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 20 Mar. 2018
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Giveon’s baritone vocals set the tone for the melodious R&B track and getting the audience members on their feet.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 3 Apr. 2022
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Her voice—low, melodious—was at odds with her body language: skittish, almost ill at ease.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
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In fact, coral reefs generate a constant stream of melodious tunes.
—Ellie Shechet, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2021
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The camera focuses on a bobbing flower or berry over the sound of a melodious songbird.
—Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
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When quirkily melodious new wave tried to make punk cute, the Bowery gobbled it all up and puked up atonal filth-art no wave.
—Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 11 Aug. 2023
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There was no beauty, no grace, or for that matter no melodious music.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2022
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Dave McQueen, a radio newsman with a melodious voice, dies at 78.
—Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2021
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The melodious chirps of a Skype call ring throughout a downtown Boulder office promptly at 11 p.m., and Xenia’s class of two girls and three boys pops onto the screen.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2017
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For that matter, does anyone have a richer, more melodious voice?
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
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Dulcet, melodious, and tuneful are just three of the adjectives that will never be applied to the GT’s soundtrack.
—Greg Pajo, Car and Driver, 22 Jan. 2018
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Mary hollered over her shoulder, in a melodious, oh-so-Tennessee accent, warm with years.
—Colin Warren-Hicks The Virginian-Pilot (tns), al, 5 Feb. 2023
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