Sentence examples for sour voice from inspiring English sources
"sour voice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to a person's voice that has a tone that is unpleasant or unpleasant to listen to. For example: "The angry customer spoke in a sour voice as he described his dissatisfaction with the product."
Republican senators who have shelved their commitment to reform should help make it happen: people like Orrin Hatch, an original Dream Act sponsor, now a sour voice for border control.
The story's one sour voice belongs to the mayor's teenage daughter, a provincial radical feminist whose contemptuous dismissal of Apollo 11 injects the hoopla with a discordant note that is played for humor.
The New Yorker, February 26 , 1938P. 48 When you walk into the store in summer and Ernie is slicing bacon, he says, in a sour voice: "Exactly five slices to the inch, no more, no less.
By Eleanor Blake The New Yorker, February 26 , 1938P. 48 When you walk into the store in summer and Ernie is slicing bacon, he says, in a sour voice: "Exactly five slices to the inch, no more, no less.
He liked hearing the music and the voices: "the sour voice of an older woman who used to tell anyone who would listen about her father's death, and the panic of an adolescent who, one winter dawn, swore that he would never screw without a condom again".
A few people will notice and then they'll die too!... Nothing is left of you but a sour voice in your daughter's head every time she loses her keys, or an empty seat on the bus -- and there are MORE BRIOCHES for everybody!" The effect is part wide-eyed naïveté and part pure rage.
Below the surface of this genial suite of dance tunes, you detect the young composer sticking it to the Soviet cultural police with seemingly ironic touches: sour voicing of chords; excessively filigreed clarinet riffs; sturdy bass lines that turn thumpy.
This was a time of fresh, often sour, voices nagging away at snobbery, unfairness and privilege; it was the moment of John Osborne, John Arden, working-class actors, the poetry of Philip Larkin, the critical writings of Kenneth Tynan, Al Alvarez and John Berger.
Her supple, pitch-perfect sweet-and-sour voice was so wistful and sincere that it made listeners want to protect her.
She harvests a world of exasperation out of her responses to Jack's whining, using her cracked, whiskey-sour voice as a foil.
She has an exquisite voice, sour yet lovely, with a high-wired quiver that can expose the words it sings.
