lower register

Example Sentences

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At the time, she felt it was impossible to take time off, and experimented with singing in a lower register to ease the stress on her vocal cords.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Under the sea, air is precious — and whales likely evolved to use the lower register for echolocation since it uses air the most efficiently.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023

It's like, I've been saying this for years, but you needed to hear it at a lower register.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2022

Speaking in a lower register than Buckley, Harewood requires that we listen afresh to Buckley, as we do to Vidal: both men at ease with their characters’ fast-talking fluency of thought.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2021

A little while later they came out smoking cigars, talking contentedly in the mellow lower register of the German language.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut