Sentence examples for knowing tone from inspiring English sources

"We have the world's best coffee in Norway did you know that?" Terje tells me over the phone with a cheeky, knowing tone from an office space-cum-studio in Oslo.

The knowing tone redeems it.

"I'm sure it's building a little bit," Mattingly said of Ethier in a knowing tone.

"Where are those 'certain areas' he's talking about?" Mr. Obama asked with a knowing tone.

I remember the hard, knowing tone I used only with him.

"New shoes, eh?" the man said to me in a knowing tone.

But the cheeky, knowing tone assumes that viewers can enjoy nosy Russian yentas — and laugh at themselves.

If he had the same knowing tone and touches of humor as in earlier sermons, his message was more conspiratorial.