Sentence examples for pleading voice from inspiring English sources

When I found it, I hated my croaky, pleading voice.

In "Enchanted," Swift murmurs in a pleading voice, "Please don't be in love with someone else".

The band cannot reach the audience through words, because Stipe mumbles his lyrics with a rasping, pleading voice.

With a rich, pleading voice that conveys several layers of rusted sadness, wisdom and determination, Mr. Butler remains a peerless soul balladeer.

The result was a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading voice.

At one point in the service, we heard a recording of Jackson saying, in that softly pleading voice of his, "It feels good to be thought of as a person, not as a personality".

"No cellphones?" they asked in pleading voices, looking around at one another with wide eyes and open mouths.

Heartbreaking, that pleading adenoidal voice.

There were riveting passages that combined choralelike harmonies with unhinged rhythms; a bleakly comic episode in which the brass players from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra evoked a wondrous gaggle of squawking, whining and pleading human voices.

And when he sings, earnestly crooning like Mel Tormé when he begins a verse, then caustically (and a little comically) muttering like Lou Reed to end it, he does so through a filter that distorts his voice electronically, allusively -- it's the voice pleading through the intercom from the apartment vestibule, the voice leaving a message on the cell at 4 a.m.

She pleaded for voice lessons.