Sentence examples for rising inflection from inspiring English sources

But he also tells me, "She's all right," with a rising inflection of approval, like Bogart offering tribute to Bacall.

I don't know what irritates me more, the rising inflection, the identikit notion of beauty … But wait!

This group of words was initialized, as is the custom with all Department of Defense phrases; unfortunately, it produced gwot, universally pronounced with a rising inflection as "Gee-what?" The image it projects is of a brass hat scratching his head, however, which is why the phrase may be dropped from internal d.o.d.o.d

Before I knew what I was doing, I'd set the bottle down on the desk and I was pulling on my coat, furious suddenly, and then I was out the door and into the night, the snow swirling overhead and Steve's voice — "So you want a hit of tequila?" — trailing off behind me with a soft, hopeful, rising inflection.

In the English language, prosody can distinguish a question from a statement (at least before the rising inflection became fashionable).

A chirrup, a cross between a meow and a purr with rising inflection, is a friendly greeting sound, often used by a mother cat to call to her kittens.

Those rising inflections are applied here to Libya (a great joke about al-Megrahi and Scottish life expectancy), David Cameron and class, and the relationship between happiness and equality.

If the actor's accent of studied rising inflections and his ill-advised gesticulations have something to do with the director's ostensible accent on comedy, that's a big mistake.

Together, the partners launch into "Alexander's Ragtime Band," a Campbell specialty, full of spontaneous new inflections, rising from dreamy anticipation to an explosion of euphoria.

For services like directory assistance and the bank, each number has to be recorded three times with different inflections -- rising, neutral and dropping.

In particular, as temperature increases, the viscosity initially rises to an inflection point then begins degrading afterward and this process can repeat at higher temperatures (Rabie and Nasr-El-Din 2015).