Sentence examples for mellisonant from inspiring English sources

Included here is a fair sampling of the multisyllabic: aprosexia (an abnormal inability to pay attention), dangleation (dallying with girls; flirtation), mellisonant (sweet-sounding; pleasing to the ear).

Reading Rachel Donadio's reference to Norman Rush's "Mating" in her post on literary dealbreakers — hot on the heels of Jennifer Balderama's most mellisonant post about obscure words — reminded me of John Updike's review in the New Yorker of that remarkable 1991 novel about a brilliant young American anthropologist in Botswana who falls in love with an older and even more brilliant man.