"tone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His querulous tone provoked me.
- The whispered laugh died; but its tones provoked a weird hollowness within the moving taxi.
- Killashandra repressed a second facetious remark which Pirinio's tone provoked.
- His cool tone, Spock thought, would surely provoke McCoy into a rant.
- The film opened with a warning from a group committed to combating white slavery, but the film's sensationalist tone provoked controversy.
- There was a woman of charming vivacity, whose eyes were ever ready for laughter, and whose tone of address of itself provoked the noblest of replies.
- Her tone provoked a deep pink flush in Yevir's cheeks.
- The tone provoked new terror in King Furzman's evil brain.
- His tone was certainly provoking, but, as a general rule, Mary was not easily provoked.
- The tone of this article, and the abuse, will provoke a similar response from some posters.
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