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noun

euphony

any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds

In a sentence

Six example sentences with euphony, each labelled with its topic.

  • The choir's final chord filled the nave with a euphony that held the audience still for several seconds.

    Music

  • Tennyson chose words for euphony as much as sense, which is why his lines survive being read badly.

    Literature

  • The hall's curved plaster ceiling turns an ordinary string quartet into a euphony you can feel in your ribs.

    Architecture

  • At dusk the valley fills with a euphony of church bells, each village ringing a minute after the last.

    Travel

  • The restored wetland greets the dawn with a euphony of warblers that had been absent for twenty years.

    Environment

  • The score's closing euphony, strings and a single flute, sends the audience out humming into the parking lot.

    Movies

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