falsetto
Example Sentences
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Hooligan is equally audacious, with a rhythm track built from the sound of sharpening knives and snatches of cinematic strings that somehow leads into a dizzying falsetto chorus.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
A bit of tinkering – stripping the original’s heavy bassline, tossing in his lithe falsetto and a playful guitar to hold everything aloft – made the one-time throwaway into something immortal.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026
As it unfolds, Mr. Ellis’s voice effortlessly slides between registers, conveying shifts in emphasis by judicious use of falsetto, which is often layered via multitrack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
His falsetto found new registers of rapture and longing.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025
Once the music starts he goes right into the Jimmy-verse, banging against his washboard and letting it all hang out in a piercing falsetto that’s surprisingly on key.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
Vocabulary lists containing falsetto
The Catcher in the Rye
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Music - Middle School
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The Sea of Monsters
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