sotto voce

Example Sentences

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John: sotto voce, just barely in range: “In the army, perhaps.”

From Salon

Though he’s given to explosive bursts of speech, as the character has developed, the humor he plays becomes more subtle and quiet, peppered with muttered comments and sotto voce asides he means to be heard.

From Los Angeles Times

But instead, the trip is taking place sotto voce.

From BBC

Heads bent close in the candlelight, speaking sotto voce, they made an almost rom-com pair.

From New York Times

But his subsequent sotto voce remark, to the effect that he probably wouldn’t give any of the Manhattan Project scientists clearance under those rules, doesn’t appear anywhere in the 1,011-page hearing transcript.

From Los Angeles Times