Her voice seemed to echo the emphasis I'd put on the word "some," although perhaps with a more mocking tone.

Finally, with a faintly mocking tone he hadn't intended, he replied, "I don't know, sir."

"Far be it from me," Calhoun said with a faintly mocking tone, "to challenge one whose scientific knowledge so outstrips my own."

In a statement today, the Myanmar government maintained its somewhat mocking tone toward the standoff, which it has portrayed as a pleasant outing in the countryside.

There was a faintly mocking tone to his voice.

His voice took on a sly and mocking tone.

But there was an undeniably mocking tone in many of the senators' pronouncements about their action.

In 1591 he published Complaints, a collection of poems that express complaints in mournful or mocking tones.

Brave words, her inner Plum said in an annoyingly mocking tone.

Using his most mocking tone, he said, "Long time no see, Nanook.