Sentence examples for trace of an accent from inspiring English sources

"I'm obsessed with kitsch," she says, betraying only the slightest trace of an accent.

I am told I speak it without a trace of an accent.

"We tried, but it's time to go," she said with a trace of an accent as she patted my arm.

There was a foreignness to him, something craggy and lonesome, and a trace of an accent in his voice.

Occasionally, there is the slightest trace of an accent (vaguely French) and a lapse into the present tense.

MEET Julius Meinl V in a bar in Belgravia and he seems the epitome of the well-bred Englishman, with no trace of an accent.

Occasionally he shouted instructions laced with traces of an accent from Brooklyn, where he lives with his partner, the actress Maude Mitchell, the dramaturge and acting coach for "Streetcar".

He speaks thoughtfully, taking time to find the right words, which still bear traces of an accent from his Essex childhood.

"I'm already an American," he'd say indignantly, haughtily, in a clipped and formal way that was supposed to emphasize the fact that he had, through extreme effort, lost all traces of an accent.

There's a trace of an Aussie accent – Mark moved from Australia to London at the age of eight.

His speech is soft, with a trace of an Irish accent so faint it could be north or south.