nasality
Example Sentences
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He added, “It definitely does have some of the Sinatra characteristics, but there’s a little nasality in there, and it’s when the singer becomes nasal that I start to hear that it’s not Frank.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2020
There’s an enthusiastic crack of adolescence, of nasality, in his voice that might sound nerdy but is also warm.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017
He consults a speech therapist, who gives him exercises to reduce his nasality and elongation of vowels.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
Yet the two are instantly doing dueling Michael Caines: Coogan emphasizing Caine's nasality, Brydon the lower, slower diction that comes from decades of "all the cigars and brandy."
From Time ● Jun. 10, 2011
I have used this latter form in the 'Biglow Papers,' because, if enough nasality be added, it represents most nearly the average sound of what I may call the interjection.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
