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sing-song
adjective as in monotonous
Example Sentences
She sits up tall and strikes up her one-man band of sing-song sound.
The Qari spent weeks sitting on his cot reciting in a sing-song chant the entire Quran.
“He has that sing-song quality to his voice, a melody to it,” Odenkirk says.
Eyes on the magazine, Sebatacheck goes back to his sing-song voice.
The chanting must have been much like the sing-song that some people fall into when reading verses now.
In a loud sing-song jabber they are repeating something which they read off the slates they hold in front of them.
He was swearing mechanically, in a sing-song voice, as the blood seeped through each fresh turn of cotton.
When there is very great and regular or monotonous variation of pitch in a voice, we call it a "sing-song."
Wasula laughed, in spite of herself, the sing-song laugh of the wild maid of the woods.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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