"tone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Gesturing exaggeratedly with his hand, he affected a peevish tone.
- "I haven't seen you for a long time," Tirel said in peevish tones.
- The voice was very high-pitched and shrill, its tone not only peevish but also full of reproach and anger.
- The peevish tone was back again, and Stu was inclined to believe him.
- Valentina said; summing up the situation in much the way Adele would've done herself, and in an equally peevish tone.
- 'I still don't understand what all the fuss is about,' Ellen replied in a slightly peevish tone.
- "I suppose not," he said in a peevish tone.
- Or, in a slightly peevish tone, "But why are you buying them if they hurt?"
- You could hear the girl's tiredness and hunger in her peevish tones.
- At another point, he took on a peevish tone when asked about Democratic measures in Congress to censure him for his secret surveillance program.
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