Sentence examples for voice lay from inspiring English sources

The strongest part of her voice lay in the lower middle.

He seemed timid at first, but she quickly learned that behind the soft voice lay a powerful will.

Next we were introduced to Neal Davies, the Traveller, who's big, booming, but sumptuous voice lay a bit higher than Stone's and the two of them melded together in beautiful (if Britten-like astringent) harmony.

The steady voice lies to the reader and lies to its speaker.

The power of her voice lies in the cutting edge of its upper register and not in any rhythmic sophistication.

She sings like an outsider, in a clear voice made for drowsy madrigals and folk rusticana; her voice lies on top of stomps and threnodies and drone-chants.

The source of this continuing anxiety around the female voice lies in utero: it's the first voice we hear, and feel.

Listening to Patricia Racette sing popular songs at the Neue Galerie on Thursday and recollecting her "Madama Butterfly" this season at the Metropolitan Opera posed the interesting question of where her natural voice lies, or if "natural voice" means anything.

Justin Hawkins's voice lies somewhere between ordinary and ugly, but he can push to a very high falsetto, and occasionally write very funny lyrics, putting specks of English civility and anxiety into the larger topic of caveman desire.

Three!" Around the meadow, they show us mats that have been laid down in the long grass; when you carefully lift them ("I saw it on Deadly 60," says Sam, 11, in his most casual voice), lying curled up underneath are tiny coiled bodies.

She steps out in this prom gown from some era that we never lived in, and with that helium voice, lies to her, when she knows all along the ruby slippers will take her home instantly and that Dorothy doesn't have to suffer anything.