toneless

Example Sentences

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Publicly, she remained above party politics, always attending the state opening of Parliament but delivering the “Queen’s Speech” outlining the government’s agenda in the toneless accents expected of a politically neutral sovereign.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2022

The music seethes sadly at this, but the dissonance passes through a sublime moment of consonance — courting sunshine — before drifting back into tension, then transpiring upward into pure shimmer, almost toneless.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021

But that didn’t matter, murmured Beal in his baritone which predictably grows toneless and even deeper following tough losses.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018

Her delivery is toneless, as if she were trying to induce her audience into shifting its attention elsewhere.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2014

“Oh, don’t you worry about that,” Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller