toneless

Example Sentences

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Publicly, she remained above party politics, always attending the state opening of Parliament but delivering the “Queen’s Speech” outlining the government’s agenda in the toneless accents expected of a politically neutral sovereign.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022

The only piece of Diane she has is “the neural snag she left in my head, the mad drone of her toneless seventeen-year-old voice that long-ago night.”

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2018

But that didn’t matter, murmured Beal in his baritone which predictably grows toneless and even deeper following tough losses.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018

“Love,” he went on toneless, “what about you an’ me getting married?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

“Oh, don’t you worry about that,” Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller