breathy voice
Example Sentences
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Despite her small, breathy voice and heavily accented French, Birkin became a major interpreter of Gainsbourg’s songs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
"My vocal trainer always says I have a breathy voice, so the way I sing is not so staccato."
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2024
It’s a very breathy voice and so, therefore, I have to start quite far down in the diaphragm.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2020
“It was the clenched teeth and, you know, the breathy voice, so there really wasn’t any resemblance — there isn’t any resemblance to the old man that sits before us today,” Gay Hardwick said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2020
She always made me feel squirmy with her starey pebble-colored eyes and her gleaming tombstone teeth and her breathy voice.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
