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sten ter

  • n  a speaker with an unusually loud voice
  • n  the mythical Greek warrior with an unusually loud voice who died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes
  • n  any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor

  • Baldwin, pipe-sucking Willkie stentor, who had actually balanced the State budget during his able administration.
  • Then he bluntly told the great stentor that the meeting would have to wait until after election day.
  • He described Christian's heckling as inhumanly abrasiveworse than that of the gifted stentor, Ebbets Field Hilda, whose loon-like cries are supposed to carry to the Mississippi.

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