sotto voce
Example Sentences
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John: sotto voce, just barely in range: “In the army, perhaps.”
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025
But instead, the trip is taking place sotto voce.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
He was a dazzling stylist, but his rapping always had a riveting sense of proximity — a sotto voce intimacy that allowed you to feel the precise distance between his mouth and your ear.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2021
Here, Bettany leaned into his camera and replied, sotto voce: “It was her snot. Anyway.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2021
“Think I’m stupid?” said Alice, but sotto voce.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
