Sentence examples for drained voice from inspiring English sources

But he wasn't simply absent from his remarks, another drained voice echoing down the tunnel of teaching years.

In a depleted and drained voice, a doctor recalled for Hersey his having to ignore impassioned pleas for him to leave what remained of his hospital to go to the aid of those exposed and expiring on a riverbank.

"I have them in other places, too," she said finally, her voice drained of expression.

But Finister is effecting some kind of apotheosis with her exquisite blown beats, ethereal production, and a series of evanescent whispers that only vaguely fall under the rubric "singing": it's not full-bodied but empty, drained; less a voice than a void.

His face was drained and his voice was reedy edging on whiny.

"But you're a Royal?" Andy's voice drained with sadness.

The aim was to drain their voices of any expression – "to become, like, dead, basically".

"That's pretty," she says, in a voice so drained of affect it's a wonder he doesn't commit seppuku with his scissors.

But if Notebaert is right and the $2.1 trillion global communications industry is slowly drained of its core voice business, the ultimate effects will benefit the economy profoundly.

Here, the beauty finally drains from his voice to leave a bleached tone suggestive of utter exhaustion and futility, while Martineau, whose playing has hitherto captured both the wanderer's trudging walk and the frozen landscape through which he moves, reaches a similar point of enervated stasis.

"Jay?" Mona's voice was flattened, drained of vitality, but with an insinuating weight to it, a desperate muscle of sound, commanding me to listen.