Sentence examples for faint tone from inspiring English sources

Soon, a faint tone could be heard, but it wasn't from the piano.

There's a faint tone of mockery in Depp's mildness, in his secret half smile, though his face can darken with rage.

"I don't mind being interrupted, as long as it's not too hostile," Mr. Bolten told his staff with a faint tone of hope.

Though readable enough, these tales lack the fierce concision and ear for dialogue that fuel Mr. Carver's best fiction, and a faint tone of condescension toward the characters tends to leave a bitter aftertaste.

The link between the two is here undermined, however, by the faint tone of condescension Nunn takes towards the amateur operatics: his chorus adopt woodenly fixed smiles and dance mechanically; even a joke line about one character fearing she won't be visible is taken literally, so she's always edged into the wings.

There's a faint tone of alarm and victimhood in all this.

Videson found that mother and calf conversed in faint tones that were audible from only three hundred or so feet away.

A few seconds later Sumner heard his own call sign coming back in faint tones.

But I'm entranced the faint tones continue to lure me... floating in and out of the Pacific like a ghost ship.

As I walk past them, I pick up a faint, long tone, off in the distance.

As he listens, "a faint, high ringing tone followed, wavering and climbing, piercing the world beneath the surface with what I recognized as the 'stun song' of a whale".