timbre
Example Sentences
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She repeats this claim with each painting, sometimes with a quasireligious timbre.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
"We have that same timbre but I've had to work on the way he speaks."
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025
Wilkins, who lends Barack Obama a smoky timbre as seductive as the patented sounds of Teddy Pendergrass and Marvin Gaye.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
But Jones’ timbre perhaps gave voice to something universal, a sound to nobility and resplendence.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024
Nye, whose normal voice is cuttingly nasal and naturally intimidating, was attempting a subdued timbre, a disarming, throwaway style.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Vocabulary lists containing timbre
Music - Introductory
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This Week In Culture: April 12–18, 2020
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Music - Middle School
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