tone of voice

Example Sentences

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“People say: ‘I hadn’t heard someone talk to me in that tone of voice since my grandfather was alive.’

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

They are being coached to read customers’ moods, to choose the right gestures, the correct tone of voice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 20, 2025

"I promise you, for the remainder of the next four years, I will only speak to you in this tone of voice, this close to the camera. I will be relentless."

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2024

I told her the agency, and she said, “So it’s really me paying for it” in a somewhat snide tone of voice.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2024

They rarely spoke; the father said public things to her in the same tone of voice he used with his sons-in-law.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez