octave
Example Sentences
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She dialed her voice to its sweetest octave, her face to its most innocent, girlish mask.
From Literature
She dialed her voice to its sweetest octave, her face to its most innocent, girlish mask.
From Literature
It can elegantly vault octaves, scoop notes without a croaky glottal fry and crack words into multi-note, velvety yodels.
From Los Angeles Times
Your voice goes up an octave or you start to walk differently.
From Los Angeles Times
However, in one research project, astronomer Mark Whittle compressed the first million years of the universe into 10 seconds, shifted up by 50 octaves so that the human ear could hear.
From Salon
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