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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
mon·o·tone
[
mon
-
uh
-tohn
]
/
ˈmɒn
əˌtoʊn
/
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Part of Speech:
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monotone
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Example Sentences
Waves of speeches roll by, reduced by the translator's
monotone
to a lulling sea song.
The computer then read her answer aloud, in a
monotone
and with all the wrong inflections.
At rallies even his own supporters were fast bored by the former lawyer's
monotone
drawl.
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Waves of speeches roll by, reduced by the translator's
monotone
to a lulling sea song.
The computer then read her answer aloud, in a
monotone
and with all the wrong inflections.
At rallies even his own supporters were fast bored by the former lawyer's
monotone
drawl.
In areas high above the tree line, where summer flowers have a hard time growing, the landscape can be almost
monotone
.
Moments later she is slumped in her chair, eyes closed, answering the hypnotist's questions in a zombielike
monotone
.
I've got to get the kids to a birthday party" as they finish their can-I-take-your-order
monotone
performances.
People who don't, won't, or can't think about what they are hearing will be satisfied by a pulsating
monotone
.
For confirmation of the language thing, try standing with your back to a dog and giving commands in a
monotone
.
As he slurred his
monotone
words, the crowd yawned, and quickly thinned.
Their fiery halos relieved the green
monotone
that by late summer ruled the garden.
Rank correlation is preserved under
monotone
transformations, which includes the log.
To play the game, you record yourself in a
monotone
.
He read his testimony as if working his way through the agate in a bond offering, his voice a dead-on-arrival
monotone
.
And many of those that can be convinced will not be so through finger-wagging
monotone
speechs.
The defendant spoke in a
monotone
voice and often gazed at his attorney while speaking.
If there were good ideas buried in that deluge of verbiage, they were obscured by his dreary
monotone
.
Japan has been racially
monotone
for centuries and this will also change.
I'll take vague directions to faraway restaurants over
monotone
tour guides any day.
The number of speeches he garbles in his heavily accented
monotone
can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
That's not something that happens in the
monotone
of everyday life.
Leary showed no emotion as he read his words in a low
monotone
from a sheet of paper.
He or she rushes through it, reading in a
monotone
without looking up, or goes way over or under the specified time limits.
He speaks only to announce his majority opinions, reading summaries in a gruff
monotone
.
Sitting alone in my office, my voice would be much quieter and
monotone
.
The mask combines with the symbolic movements of the actor and
monotone
music to display an artistic beauty.
Others jotted notes and sat stone-faced as the defendant spoke in his usual soft,
monotone
voice.
But she reads it in a dead
monotone
and gives no response to the feelings expressed.
There may be a newer version of slate black that is
monotone
and not greenish.
Both readings are in the normal political
monotone
of the party line.
The film goes on and on in a kind of reverential narrative
monotone
.
And it was often offered in a
monotone
as he stood before a solid-color backdrop that flicked from green to blue.
They choose a tone or emotion for each speech and barrel through it in an energetic
monotone
.
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