vibrato

Ms. Burgess’s light soprano and plaintive vibrato suggest that Thorn Rose is not entirely convinced that awakening is a good idea, but she goes along with it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

After months of painful practice, he learned a new style of playing – using his two good fingers to lay down chords, and adding vibrato to thicken the sound.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

Getting ready for “A Complete Unknown,” she learned to finger-pick guitar and sing with Baez’s signature vibrato.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

The pair cherrypicked from the two models, and made alterations to things like vibrato speed, or slowing and relaxing phrases.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

He’d begin to whistle “Begin the Beguine” warbling the melody to evoke a clarinet’s vibrato and fingering the air.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

There, a strange man with an oboe sat on the ridge of his tooth, playing wide vibratos through nimbusfog.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

All the poignant sentiment that Lennon and Ono imbued the song with is completely sucked out by singer Adam Levine’s reaching aria and overdone vibratos.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2018

King’s shudders and vibratos, half-shouts and glottal stops have become a synecdoche for the ongoing struggle for American freedom.

From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017

The store’s guitar tech shakes his hand, and within minutes, they’re geeking out over Bigsby vibratos, P-90 pickups and the pink, 1956 Gibson lap steel Bonamassa recently found.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2016

Then their whinnied replies came back in trembling vibratos.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older