Sentence examples for tenor that from inspiring English sources

He had a rich split tenor that was both assertive and intimate.

Mr. Anot sang a few melodies in a tenor that could sound like Sting.

Mr. Celedón has a bright tenor that can sound tearful and imploring or ruefully amused.

His voice is equally dualistic, a keening tenor that could belong either to a white man or a black woman.

"Where to now?" Groban sang, in an expansive tenor that made you understand where all those records went.

(Universal Republic) It wasn't just Javier Colon's high, supple, long-breathed, achingly sincere tenor that made him the winner on the premiere season of "The Voice" this year.

The band's founder, Ed Droste, has a creamy tenor that favors a clean mid-range and slides into a falsetto without splintering.

They are united by a common cause: heading off economic disaster while toning down the antagonistic tenor that has dominated Italian politics for the last 20 years.

They were all ballads, all sung in a yearning quavery tenor that didn't seem ready to settle anywhere anytime soon and accompanied by the most rudimentary strummed guitar.

While he knows his way around jazz-funk fusion, he is also a singer with the kind of gentle, imploring tenor that is prized in West Africa.

Mr. Thomas has a forceful tenor that falls somewhere between the angelic and the animal; in Pere Ubu, it floats heavily over a barrage of melodic noise.