monotone

The album’s 11 songs were childlike curios, with Mr. Richman announcing several of the titles at the start, accompanied by a pithy, monotone explanation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Occasionally, Göransson adds a lovely monotone layer of woodwinds or a keening chorus that sounds like the oldest song on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Her understated androgyny was paired with a shout-singing vocal style that had a snarly, monotone curl laced with abandon and disregard for convention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

Sweeney has a tough enough job cut out for her trying to act her way out of a paper-thin script, but this one-note, ridiculously monotone performance does her no favors.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

But with a monotone voice and that far-off look she’d taken on since Dad had left with the lost Council, it was hard to take in the message.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

The looks came in sequential monotones of navy, royal blue, red, ice blue and white.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024

“One cup equals 16 tablespoons,” she monotones, in that slightly robotic but very friendly voice.

From The Verge ● Jan. 19, 2015

The other subjects in that educational video, boys chanting in monotones about Power Ranger dolls and sea-creatures, were allegedly my neurological brethren, albeit from a different place on the spectrum.

From Slate ● May 3, 2013

Washington "In the Washington scenes, we were looking for more monotones and more repetition, in set decorating and color and props," Ms. Seymour said.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2013

Occasionally men passed along the narrow street very close to him, talking in monotones to each other, a cloud of dust rising around their feet with each step.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers