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falsetto
adjective as in squeaky
Weak matches
noun as in soprano
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in tenor
Strong matches
Example Sentences
One section that gets the blood pumping more than any other is the second half of the chorus, in which the low-toned voices of rappers singing “baby hold on” are woven together with vocalists’ light falsettos in a dynamic contrast of vocal timbres.
You might laugh at first at his ridiculous falsetto, and then you might blast the song 20 times in a row due to its relentless exuberance.
While many of IU’s tracks are sung in a weightier fashion, her singing here is airy and delicate —whether in the soft falsetto or the whispery ooh’s that fill the post-chorus.
He made his first digital splashes back in 2011 as a mystery man, refusing to assign a name or face to his voice — a floating, yearning falsetto that sounded like it was trying to escape the loneliness of living inside the body that had produced it.
Fans of Earth, Wind & Fire need only hear a few notes of Philip Bailey’s iconic falsetto before they start to swoon, sway and sing along.
They wrote big songs with big falsetto choruses designed for big sing-alongs in big stadiums.
And he starts to sing it, filling the room with his sweet, fragile tenor, shifting to a falsetto that cuts straight to the heart.
Unlike his falsetto and his "cool dad" penchant for fedoras, this rumored affair is just so not cute.
His three-octave falsetto was also used to good advantage in Mars Attacks!
That high falsetto is frighteningly convincing, which raises the question: could a man really have pulled it off?
"Well, if it ain't ole Turkeyneck in person," he called in a high falsetto voice, as the two entered.
At last his companion had got into the habit of looking up at him whenever he cried in a falsetto voice, "Mignonne."
The trolley-wire, lifting a whole city home to supper, is a giant with a falsetto voice.
After the squalling falsetto had implored for a long time, the assailant at last gave over the exercise.
The employment of the Falsetto at any time, either in speaking or reading, is of doubtful taste.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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