toneless
Example Sentences
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Publicly, she remained above party politics, always attending the state opening of Parliament but delivering the “Queen’s Speech” outlining the government’s agenda in the toneless accents expected of a politically neutral sovereign.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022
The music seethes sadly at this, but the dissonance passes through a sublime moment of consonance — courting sunshine — before drifting back into tension, then transpiring upward into pure shimmer, almost toneless.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021
But that didn’t matter, murmured Beal in his baritone which predictably grows toneless and even deeper following tough losses.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018
“Love,” he went on toneless, “what about you an’ me getting married?
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016
Its toneless voice had stopped the King half-way.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
