Sentence examples for voice sailed from inspiring English sources

"The river?" The boy's voice sailed high in the question.

The song ended, for example, with the singer and players landing together on a pungent, fortissimo sustained chord; when Ms. Chopra simply delayed her last high note by one beat, her voice sailed over the instruments and the word "time" was audible.

Craig Lytle of Allmusic noted that Houston's voice "sailed" through the song.

Erin McCarley's airy, assured voice sails through "Love, Save the Empty," a debut album full of romances: a few good ones and a majority summed up by the title of one song, "Lovesick Mistake".

The album's most accessible and transcendent moment, "Conceptual Romance," whose instantly memorable chorus finds Hval's lazily ethereal voice sailing above sub-bass and bleary synths, hits harder for arriving on the heels of a disconcerting abstract interlude made up of percussive synth stabs, Hval's strained hyperventilating, and one lyric: "It hurts everywhere".

Women's forthright voices sailed over South American percussion when the Latinas tour came to Symphony Space on Tuesday night.

She'd stood on the steps in freezing cold in a gray hat, her voice sailing over the huge crowd that stretched back to the Reflecting Pool.

Ms. Houston's voice sails and spirals through breathy ballads, staccato constructions and big-build anthems; she's strategic and improvisatory at the same time.

Ms. Guerra — whose most recent album, "Hombre Invisible," won a 2010 Latin Grammy for best alternative album — sang about desire and transformation; her songs were chunky rock or pulsating funk, letting her voice sail from entranced, breathy delicacy to passionate growls and wails.

It hit you just in the right place, a vast, generous wash of instruments, played by men from Chicago by way of the deep south, with Muddy Waters' mesmeric voice sailing on across the top, regaling us with tales of voodoo, king bees buzzing around hives, and doing well with ladies.

She looked not aloof but entranced, a good match for a voice that sailed above her band, concentrated on the long line of her melodies.