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stentorian
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synonyms: sonorous, megalophonous, plangent ???
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Definition:(of a voice) very loud and powerful
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Beam waited tensely. “Is Ackers along?”
“Yes, he’s there. Banish It!” Garth’s voice rose in stentorian frenzy. “Banish the system of Banishment! Root out the crooks and pirates!”
Dick, Philip K.. The Second Philip K. Dick MEGAPACK®: 13 Fantastic Stories . Wildside Press LLC
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Congressmen denounced the atrocity in stentorian wrath and clamored for punishment.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961)
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a stentorian major-domo announced that dinner was ready!
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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He looked at the groups of bystanders in front of the house and with his old stentorian voice, restored by a deep disgust with himself, he unloaded upon them the burden of hate that he could no longer bear in his heart.
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.257 (1970)
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