Sentence examples for querulous voice from inspiring English sources

Are you O.K.?" A long silence passed before I heard a querulous voice.

"Is there anyone who doesn't like custard?" A small, querulous voice pipes up to our right.

I love these images too, but every time I see them, I hear a querulous voice inside me.

But in Greensboro, N.C., where Card lives, readers of the weekly Rhinoceros Times also know him as the garrulous, querulous voice behind the column Uncle Orson Reviews Everything.

His querulous voice, and the curling briar-stem melodies he applies it to, has its closest analogue in Billie Holiday on Lady in Satin.

Ms. Vowell, an education columnist for Time magazine and a regular "American Life" contributor, tempered the story's acidity with her funny querulous voice and shrewd comic delivery.

Children found it reassuringly easy to draw Daleks and to imitate their throaty, querulous voices.

Seinfeld's querulous, squeaky voice - octaves away, surely, from the classical buzz - is very plausible for his character who, like an observational comic, is nettled and exasperated by the quirky things about his own situation that he keeps noticing.

Adopting a high, soft, slightly querulous tone of voice that's the exact opposite of Daniel Plainfield's Hustonesque bark in There Will Be Blood, this Lincoln knows the trick of lowering his voice to get everyone to lean in and pay attention.

You hear a similar hint of mockery in the querulous fluting of his voice — "Are you sent here to ruin my evening?

I hear the voices of querulous, unruly characters in my head.