Modifies a noun

• tone: The tones of this instrument are deep, sonorous tones, there are no high notes.

• voice: Smirking, he leaned his ear to the east window and promptly heard a grim and sonorous voice announce: " Sion ap Robert!

• sound: Top John Dean John, an original member, provides the foundation of the quintet with his sonorous tuba sound.

• ground: My linguistic counterpart for your ' Virgin Mary ' is what Levin calls ' The Sonorous Ground of Being ' .

• note: The sonorous note of bullfrogs is heard a mile off in the river, the loudest sound this evening.

• language: Anglo-Saxon ( the parent language of English ) was a rolling, sonorous, thunderous language well-suited to poetry and oration.

Modifying Another Word

• so: His clear voice was not so sonorous as his gigantic frame would suggest.

• very: Performance at the scored pitch makes for very sonorous and rich textures but requires a bass who can sing a low D!