Sentence examples for voice drained from inspiring English sources

"I have them in other places, too," she said finally, her voice drained of expression.

"But you're a Royal?" Andy's voice drained with sadness.

"That's pretty," she says, in a voice so drained of affect it's a wonder he doesn't commit seppuku with his scissors.

But he wasn't simply absent from his remarks, another drained voice echoing down the tunnel of teaching years.

"Jay?" Mona's voice was flattened, drained of vitality, but with an insinuating weight to it, a desperate muscle of sound, commanding me to listen.

In a depleted and drained voice, a doctor recalled for Hersey his having to ignore impassioned pleas for him to leave what remained of his hospital to go to the aid of those exposed and expiring on a riverbank.

As the scandals piled up, it was clear that the pope was increasingly tired, his voice strained, his face drained.

As all three struggle to survive, the story leads to an almost unbearable denouement, described in a voice so gentle and drained of emotion that I had to go back and read it a second time to be sure I hadn't misunderstood.

But Finister is effecting some kind of apotheosis with her exquisite blown beats, ethereal production, and a series of evanescent whispers that only vaguely fall under the rubric "singing": it's not full-bodied but empty, drained; less a voice than a void.

His face was drained and his voice was reedy edging on whiny.

But if Notebaert is right and the $2.1 trillion global communications industry is slowly drained of its core voice business, the ultimate effects will benefit the economy profoundly.