How To Use Sotto voce In A Sentence
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As for Veda's vocalese, she sings sotto voce, something for which she makes no apologies.
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Then she called Reginald to her, and lectured him, _sotto voce, _ to the same tune.
A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day
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B-z-z-z-z!" went William behind the chair; and he added, sotto voce, to Jan, "She be as dunch as a bittle.
Jan of the Windmill
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The remark was uttered sotto voce.
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'_Without a shirt, without a shirt_,'" gagged Peter, _sotto voce_, and marvelled at himself.
Simon Called Peter
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I've got plenty that I could talk about, but we've been following a strict no-sleep regimen around here the better to keep up with the short-burst baby races and the long-distance speed-toddling and the free-style table climbing and all the other events that fill our napless days and I'm really only capable of sotto voce cursing and muttering and, for variety, threatening my husband.
And then came the awkward silence...
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Michael B says: jukeboxgrad, wise and venerable one, preeminent in modesty and modest formulations (I mock not, nor [now to the audience in feigned sotto voce], nor do I indulge any mean paraleipsis),
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At this point the faint suggestion you might be a self dramatist is announced sotto voce by the clarinet and the motif gathers to full orchestral grandeur as you proceed.
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he uttered a curse sotto voce
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The defendant leant forward and spoke to his barrister, sotto voce.
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An actor himself, he doesn't write plays so much as actors' exercises: violently angry confrontations, absurdly bizarre vignettes, and abject deflations good for practicing sotto voce underacting.
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With this, I sat down, leaving my audience as _sotto voce_ as fishes with admiration and amazement at the facundity of my eloquence, and should indubitably have been the recipient of innumerable felicitations but for the fact that Miss SPINK, suddenly experiencing sensations of insalubriousness, requested me, without delay, to conduct her from the assemblage.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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An Irish History of Civilization reads like a sotto voce commentary on all Akenson's manifold interests, spun into a series of aperçus, short stories, reflections, mini-biographies and explosive jokes.
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Her mouth turns down slightly as she says this, sotto voce - women like her don't whisper, such a déclassé high school thing to do - over the sweet peas.
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'No, it was Daniel,' she continued, sotto voce.
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With this, I sat down, leaving my audience as _sotto voce_ as fishes with admiration and amazement at the facundity of my eloquence, and should indubitably have been the recipient of innumerable felicitations but for the fact that Miss SPINK, suddenly experiencing sensations of insalubriousness, requested me, without delay, to conduct her from the assemblage.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
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Characters speak in unison, repeat phrases obsessively, deliver lines supine on the floor, break up sentences illogically, or mumble sotto voce.
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'You'll be sorry,' he muttered sotto voce.
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315 Certain parts should be recited aloud (jahr) and others sotto voce (with mussitation = Khafi).
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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jukeboxgrad, wise and venerable one, preeminent in modesty and modest formulations I mock not, nor now to the audience in feigned sotto voce, nor do I indulge any mean paraleipsis
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