MELODIOUS in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for MELODIOUS, such as:

1. It is a simple melody with complex harmonies.
2. The success of a popular composer depends on his melody.
3. But four parts are altogether necessary to the perfection of melody.
4. His previous fusions of jazz, pop and African melodies have proved highly successful.
5. The leaves of the overhanging maple rustled with melody in the wind of youthful summer.

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 Meanings and Examples of MELODIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
melodious
 a.  harmonious; euphonic; agreeable to hear; producing agreeable, especially musical, sounds
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  The idea was received with melodious applause; and presently they were all running to and fro for flowers, and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  "Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about," he answered in his slow melodious voice.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
4  There was something about the tragic melody and Lorena's lost love that mingled with her own excitement and brought a lump into her throat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  They sang one Negro melody after another, while the mulatto sat rocking himself, his head thrown back, his yellow face lifted, his shrivelled eyelids never fluttering.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
6  But four parts are altogether necessary to the perfection of melody.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  The melody, which no weakness could destroy, gradually wrought its sweet influence on the senses of those who heard it.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
8  The beast still continued its rolling, and apparently untiring movements, though its ludicrous attempt to imitate the melody of David ceased the instant the latter abandoned the field.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
9  The sage started, and bent his head aside, as if to catch the fleeting sounds of some passing melody.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
10  The leaves of the overhanging maple rustled with melody in the wind of youthful summer.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  Towards Findlater's church a quartet of young men were striding along with linked arms, swaying their heads and stepping to the agile melody of their leader's concertina.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  They would sing so for hours, melody after melody, glee after glee, till the last pale light died down on the horizon, till the first dark night clouds came forth and night fell.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  Decidedly Villona was in excellent spirits; he kept up a deep bass hum of melody for miles of the road.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
14  One hand played in the bass the melody of Silent, O Moyle, while the other hand careered in the treble after each group of notes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
15  His softly padded feet played the melody while his fingers swept a scale of variations idly along the railings after each group of notes.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
Example Sentence:
1  He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong.
2  The family, is Mulan for the father of story; affection, is this story; affection, is A Bing the moon reflected in the melody.
3  The success of a popular composer depends on his melody.
4  It is a simple melody with complex harmonies.
5  As you begin to compose, improvise on that melody and see where it naturally wants to take you.
6  Ever present, they absorb the viscous lava of contempo culture through their pores, let it course through their veins ‘til a diffuse plexus of melodies and rhythms form, and then release the bubbly potion onto an unsuspecting audience.
7  His previous fusions of jazz, pop and African melodies have proved highly successful.