"tone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By the sound of their conversation someone was annoyed, although the sharp unpleasant tone to the voice suggested that a better word might be 'vexed'.
- He goes on to explain that the German approach to Jews can take on a particularly unpleasant tone when it comes to the foreign news media.
- "Well, it's morning," said the voice in a particularly unpleasant tone.
- The unpleasant tone of the conversations among the more serious officers made Roman uncomfortable.
- Come, Benn't repeated in the same unpleasant tone, and pulled his short stabbing sword from his belt.
- A not unpleasant tone came from the shortwave speaker.
- I deliver my bread request in the brusque, vaguely unpleasant tone that is de rigueur.
- There's a shrill, unpleasant tone to these early fights: "Alex gaped at them.
- "You are very late, Don Hug," he said in an unpleasant tone of voice.
- There was an unpleasant tone in his voice.
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