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
  • In his best work, Miller had a way of switching from grand stentorian speechifying to humble small talk.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But the music is drowned out by the stentorian instructions of volunteers in fluorescent green vests.
    — David Filipov, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
  • But its structure is traditional and its bursts of emotion, from stentorian speeches to frantic embraces and fistfights, can seem over the top.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The quietly ominous rumble at the start of Tesori’s score gives way to a chorus of fliers whose stentorian march morphs into a neo-Baroque fugue.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The television journalists with their trench coats and stentorian inflections.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 29 June 2017
  • Whitman then begins the prologue, singing in phrases that shift between stentorian declamations and plaintive passages.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The sensation of ripping through six forward gears with the LT4’s stentorian roar echoing off a canyon wall is one of the best in motoring.
    — Kyle Hyatt, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Broder was famous for always choosing his words carefully and for a stentorian delivery that commanded attention.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The gravelly colorings of the bass John Relyea’s stentorian voice were ideal for Hunding.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Every stentorian chord became a hammer blow, flourishes intensified into fusillades, a tense pause into an apocalypse.
    — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • As Ernesto, Harold Wilson, a stentorian bass, sang with impressive focus, carrying power and quiet charisma.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 9 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Here was a bespectacled man with a stentorian mid-century voice, urging the initiates to try the Calabrian tuna toast (scrumptious), the cheeseburger (heavenly), and the shrimp cocktail (not so much).
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Imagery was multiplied to tell a story—the stentorian Mussolini, with his upraised chin and bald head, delivering a speech, or Hitler, with his toothbrush mustache, gesticulating.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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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