general voice

Example Sentences

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The phone line to the county elections office leads to a recording, with no general voice mail or ability to reach a human with an election problem.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2020

She says: "Choirs of singers are a really lovely metaphor for any political group because you've got the general voice but you are also thinking about how the particular voice operates within it."

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2015

Our young man had not in any recent year failed to see the Salon, which the general voice this season pronounced not particularly good.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry

By the general voice Hereward was chosen as their captain, and fortified the island against the Conqueror.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

The Dean, quoting from Hooker, insists that "the voice of man is as the sentence of God himself,"—in other words, that the general voice, practice and opinion of the human race are true.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green