"I'm Mari," she said, with a slight rising inflection on the end.

She wasn't impressed, and in her quiet way, with a look or the slightest inflection, she let me know.

The slight inflection of tone, the implications, were not lost on Starr, and he flushed slightly.

With a slight inflection on the one important big word, he drove home his point.

A slight inflection at the end made it a question.

It was in your eyes and the slight inflection when you used his name.

"Maybe we will," replied Chan, with just the slightest inflection on the "we."

It was the slight inflection that made ice run through Karla's body.

Just about Shebley's tone and style, but with a slight upward inflection.

There was a slight upward inflection in the pretended voice of Lagwood.