How to Use mellifluous in a Sentence

mellifluous

adjective
  • Cassettes passed through teenage hands like mellifluous bearer bonds.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The exhaust note is mellifluous.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • His countertenor voice and phrasing—both mellifluous and frayed around the edges—convey anguish and hope.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Osgood wrote two-minute reports in succinct prose delivered in his mellifluous tones.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Overnight in one of 22 stand-alone cabins, with nothing but mellifluous river flow as the soundtrack.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2023
  • So what separates a professional voice artist from a civilian who sounds mellifluous on the phone?
    — Gavin Edwards, charlotteobserver, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Sheen’s mirthful eyes, mellifluous voice and overall vibe of sinister good cheer stood out in a cast whose job was largely to look pained and pale.
    — Sean T. Collins, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The mellifluous voices carry a lovely, velvety texture, but don’t be fooled.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
  • His songs are as peppy and mellifluous as his persona is honeyed and nonthreatening.
    — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • As his deep, mellifluous voice echoed around the concrete walls, the audience—if videos of the event are anything to go by—was left entirely bewitched.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Rainey and Hoops showcased their warm, mellifluous tones, expertly shaped songful melodies and nailed the rapid passagework.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Standing behind a keyboard, Charlie Puth, known for his mellifluous touch on songs, added a sweet coating to a beloved song.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When the Swiss retired there were mellifluous tributes, obituaries and a wave of adulation.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The album, some of which is heard in snatches on the soundtrack, has a mellifluous monotony, as if Springsteen was mesmerized by his own loneliness.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And how apropos that the mellifluous double name of Caretta Caretta is the Latin name of the loggerhead turtle species.
    — John Oseid, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Last Friday afternoon, Moore played a selection that prompted staff members to step out of their offices toward the mellifluous sounds.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • The British actor finds the humor and sensitivity in his lustful swain, and his mellifluous voice is perfectly matched to Shakespeare’s prose.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024

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