How to Use dulcet in a Sentence

dulcet

adjective
  • Graye’s dulcet tones are a stellar match for this song’s gorgeous melody.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Wishing you a week of dulcet tones, giddy resistance, and a thousand pancakes.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Guitar in hand, Sheeran traded dulcet lines with Smith while strumming along on his acoustic guitar and shuffling around the stage.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The dulcet tones of that thick Irish accent are perfectly intelligible over the phone, THR puts to him.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • The enchanting woodsy and pastoral backgrounds when the action moves from the residential suburbs to the rural outskirts add to that poignancy, as do the dulcet tones of Randy Newman’s score.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • The crowds had thinned, a table for lunch at the No Name Saloon was easy to acquire, and the dulcet tones of power tools filled the air as the Chase Sapphire Lounge was dismantled.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Pálmason’s follow-up to his austere 19th-century drama Godland is a constantly surprising film with an immaculate sense of framing and pacing—and an evocative, dulcet piano score by Harry Hunt—dotted with idiosyncratic flights of fancy that never detract from the central emotional authenticity.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025

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