Sentence examples for down the voice from inspiring English sources

As the rain poured down, the voice of Louise Bennett, or "Miss Lou," the original linguist of Jamaica, came over the public address system.

"I am instructed by Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom to warn you that if you do not respond immediately to my orders, you will be shot down," the voice on the recording says.

He could hear, a few doors down, the voice of the then deputy head of the Egyptian secret service: Major General Mohamed Abdel Salam [el-Mahgoub], who was the man who orchestrated everything, had preceded us to Libya.

Sometimes – for example in Moortown Diary, Remains of Elmet and Birthday Letters – they catch the "vivid life" of their subject by standing back, turning down the voice, letting the facts in all their strangeness bend the verse.

No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that oft-times hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

"Take down the voices, please," he said, turning to the sound engineer at the back of the concert hall before pivoting to face the players again.

The article posited that there was an organised collective in western countries determined to shut down the voices of white men.

If you can get one with no pitch change, that's good because when a video is slowed down, the voices (in this case singing) sound terrible and it might put you off learning the dance.

Elisabeth Murdoch sits down, eyes the voice recorder, and says "I have to be careful".

I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation.