"tone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His jocular tones were the first to be heard on the station.
- And that sometimes required the jocular tones of a ward heeler.
- His tone, rather jocular in the early letters, becomes more relaxed.
- They had no answer to what he said, and certainly nothing to say to his jocular tone.
- "That's one of my wife's pets," he remarked in a jocular tone.
- He used the light jocular tone which he knew Killashandra would accept.
- He considered it unlikely, but played along, keeping a jocular tone as they headed out into the hallway.
- I asked in a jocular tone, hoping to break her mood.
- "It is typically said with a pointed but jocular tone and certainly does not offend me."
- The jocular tone made it clear the words were not a barb.
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