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Example sentences for "toneless"

Lexicographically close words:
tonalities; tonality; tone; toned; toneladas; tones; tong; tonge; tonges; tonging
  1. Then the same toneless voice came out of the darkness at his side.

  2. I wish I had died," she said in a toneless voice.

  3. You don't remember me," he said in a toneless voice.

  4. There used to be a time when poor people could eat cheap things," the toneless voice went on.

  5. Hanneh Hayyeh wagged her head and began talking to herself in a low, toneless voice as if continuing her inward thought.

  6. From the landlord," he said in his toneless voice.

  7. You are not glad to see me, and I have counted the hours," he said at last in a dull toneless voice.

  8. The question would have been an unnecessary one had it been put to her instead of to her husband, for her voice had that peculiar flat toneless sound for which extreme weariness is answerable.

  9. It seems very strange that they are so slow in bringing him to trial," said Marguerite in that dull, toneless voice which had become habitual to her.

  10. Heron spoke in a toneless voice, hardly above a whisper, and like one whose throat is dry and mouth parched.

  11. Teachers usually require their pupils to obtain command of this action as a toneless exercise before permitting them to apply it to the production of tone.

  12. Toneless mechanical exercises are generally given, by which the student is expected to master the muscular movements before applying in singing the system advocated by the teacher.

  13. In the whole scheme of modern Voice Culture, toneless muscular drills consume only an insignificant proportion of the time devoted to lessons.

  14. Methods vary greatly as to the length of time devoted to toneless drills in breathing and breath-control.

  15. There is no connection between artistic singing and the practice of toneless breathing exercises.

  16. They consist mainly of toneless yawning, of single tones "yawned out" on a free exhalation, and of descending scale passages of the same type.

  17. Mechanical drills, whether toneless or vocal, have little effect other than to induce throat stiffness.

  18. They generally devote a portion of every lesson to toneless muscular drills, and insist that their pupils practise every exercise in singing, with special attention to the throat action.

  19. As in the "opposed muscular" system, the initial exercises are toneless drills in breathing.

  20. Considerable practice and close attention are required in order to hold back the breath in toneless breathing exercises.

  21. Then when he speaks, his voice is toneless and he doesn't look at his father.

  22. For the first time there was a tinge of expression in the toneless voice, a trace of eagerness.

  23. A place to dance," came the toneless reply.

  24. You have an aesthetic appeal, as I've told you before," replied the other in that toneless voice of his.

  25. You're still to learn," came the toneless voice of Nicholas Devine.

  26. He would rather have been subjected to the spectacle of tears than have heard that toneless voice, as it were the dry torrent-bed rolling blocks instead of melodious, if afflicting, waters.

  27. But there was mainly silence and darkness, and in it the five men, parleying close together in toneless whispers.

  28. All right," his toneless voice came back at last.

  29. Earthling," he said in his toneless voice, "I have decided to tell you of our intentions.

  30. In the green radiance he and Gutierrez were like ghouls prowling over me, and their muffled toneless voices, tomblike.

  31. A mockery of a human man--but in the toneless voice there seemed irony!

  32. The answer came in a toneless monotone, like the dripping of water from stalactites in subterranean caverns.

  33. The tallest of the strangers spoke, and his voice was toneless as a Khitan temple bell.

  34. I think I'll go back to bed, mother," she said in the same toneless voice.

  35. Her throat gurgled; she faltered, but she spoke at length in the toneless voice of one who speaks in sleep.

  36. In a weak and toneless voice she kept on telling them to do as they thought hest.

  37. The toneless voice was as bitter for Rhoda to hear as the accusations.

  38. There was an interval of two months: a blank fell charged with apprehension that was like the humming of a toneless wind before storm; worse than the storm, for any human thing to bear.

  39. Tell me then, if we are running into anything,' she replied, in that very quiet, toneless voice of sheer intimacy.

  40. This was a direct blow for Gudrun, spoken in a level, toneless voice of callous ease.

  41. I did love you--once," she said in a toneless voice.

  42. She was very pale, her eyes had dark circles and her features looked pinched and worn--In a toneless voice she asked the Doctor to be seated, and he drew a chair beside the bed.

  43. Charles Rambert answered in a toneless voice, as if hypnotised: "There has been a detective in the hotel for the last few days.

  44. Speak," said Lady Beltham in a toneless voice.

  45. But the toneless rejoinder was innocent of rancour.

  46. Stonor called out, in a toneless voice-- 'Here!

  47. You're burning,' observed the toneless voice from the head of the table.

  48. You don't remember me,' he said in a toneless voice.

  49. Yessir," he replied; and his toneless voice touched in me one or two springs of memory: I was at Keeb; this was the footman who looked after me.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toneless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.