Difference between Stentorian and Booming

What is the difference between Stentorian and Booming?

Stentorian as an adjective is (of a voice) loud, powerful, booming, suitable for giving speeches to large crowds while Booming as a verb is to make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

Stentorian

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (of a voice) loud, powerful, booming, suitable for giving speeches to large crowds

Booming

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

Example sentence: On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

We hope you now know whether to use Stentorian or Booming in your sentence.

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