Sentence examples for borrowing a voice from inspiring English sources

"Borrowing a voice," says Simon Bibby.

In literature, this means an author speaking in a style that is not his own -- borrowing a voice and continuing to use it until the words lose all meaning and the chaos that is real life sets in.

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The students at the New School who occupied a university building last week borrowed a voice of revolutions past when they read from "On the Poverty of Student Life," a situationist manifesto first published by students at the University of Strasbourg in 1966, and distributed there and in Paris by the tens of thousands, eventually becoming a key text in the May 1968 uprisings.

And borrowing a guitar that was tuned down, I stepped onstage for the first time and found my own unique "voice".

Try borrowing a friend's first.

NBC, please borrow a foreign-born voice from CBS. García and Mickelson were the subjects of NBC's palpable hope for someone to compete to the 18th green against Woods, or maybe even beat him.

My grandfather's early-eighties Chrysler, borrowing the voice from Speak & Spell, would intone, "A door is ajar," whenever you got in.

That's driven home near the end, when Ms. Ferreira borrows a page from Ms. Love, and amps up her voice, turning a burr into a shriek.

I borrow a phrase from my father's beloved nautical dictionary, as well as his voice.

Shakira borrowed a move from Usher's playbook to steal the last contestant on her team as the blind auditions of "The Voice" wrapped.