"tone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He pointed out in doleful tones that you couldn't say to labour-saving appliances: "Jump lively now, my hearties."
- "A good many things," murmured the prince, in a doleful tone of voice.
- By the doleful tone in his voice, he found that unlikely.
- "Jerry sad," he announced in tones so doleful that Martha van Vogel did not know whether to laugh or to cry.
- "I only wish I had poisoned claws and a double set of teeth," he replied in a doleful tone.
- "Tomorrow we go," said Qual, in what sounded like a doleful tone.
- However, the determinedly doleful tone defies laughter.
- "Truer word was never spoken," Chuck said in a doleful tone.
- His voice took on a doleful tone as he exchanged a worried look with Picard.
- Mr. Peres asked, standing in the municipal auditorium, addressing city officials, rabbis, teachers and others in doleful tones.
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