Sentence examples for upward inflection from inspiring English sources

The all-pervasive upward inflection.

An upward inflection of the voice.

I had an upward inflection to my speech, which made my mum smile.

He once quoted to me a veteran's advice: "There's many an old actor sleeping on the Embankment for want of an upward inflection".

Listen to his cadence: he would make sense of something complicated and say it simply and profoundly, often with an upward inflection at the end.

Gary Neville, meanwhile, in the commentary box continues to appeal to anyone who enjoys pithy, staccato analysis delivered with an upward inflection at the end of each sentence.

"They taught me the importance of very minute and precise analysis of a text, to the point of marking the text itself - with breaths, upward inflections, full closes, that sort of thing," he said.

The up inflection happened.

Often, women's speech is peppered with tentative and indirect phrases that scream a lack of confidence, such as, "I'm not really sure, but you could try it this way," or, "Now, I'm not an expert, but... ...... or, "I think this is a good idea — do you?" Many women have also adopted an upward vocal inflection at the end of sentences, a regrettable characteristic popularized by the Valley Girl.

His son often sounded as if he were playing a completely different instrument: his notes were pearly, liquid and precise, and at the end of certain phrases he curled a note upward in an inflection of formal elegance.

Inflections rise upward when normally they would curve down.