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Example sentences for "sotto voce"

  • Not very," says Mr. Luttrell, sotto voce, his eyes fixed on Molly.

  • That is an invaluable man, that Charles," murmurs her ladyship, sotto voce.

  • May the God of battles aid us," muttered the convict, sotto voce, as though fearful we should catch his words and fears.

  • He picked the weapon up with as easy an air as he could assume, whistling sotto voce to himself as he did it, so as to appear unconcerned.

  • D'Arcy, sotto voce; "what business has he to call our captain his friend!

  • Yes--your poor father," says Dicky Browne sotto voce, feelingly and in a tone rich with delicate encouragement.

  • So glad she has at last arrived at a just appreciation of her own powers," says Dicky, sotto voce.

  • I always thought poor Sir Garnet was a lean man," says Dicky, sotto voce.

  • I had rather stay here,' replies she, sotto voce, with an accent of miserable irritation.

  • No, I do not think it is,' she says, half sotto voce, as she passes on.

  • Which mammy will most certainly decline to do,' says Talbot sotto voce to himself.

  • Sotto voce] "In the spring a young man's fancy.

  • Sotto voce to THE PRESS] But you watch me!

  • Sotto voce] Look, Dodo, I've brought the lot!

  • Well," she demanded, sotto voce, "what of the arrangement?

  • For instance, on one occasion she said sotto voce, "What you say?

  • In all these 'Feda' sittings, the remarks styled sotto voce represent conversation between Feda and the communicator, not addressed to the sitter at all.

  • Get out Ercles,' said Leather, sotto voce.

  • Sponge's--she just motioned him off to a sofa, where she commenced a sotto voce conversation in the engaged-couple style.

  • Something she said sotto voce to her mother reached my ears.

  • As he passed on behind her chair he said to her sotto voce, "Headache, eh?

  • There was always a "pairing off" after dinner or supper; surreptitious rendezvous in the obscure cosey corners; sotto voce conversations, not intended for my ears.

  • The dentist, assuming that I knew the situation, asked me, sotto voce, how long I thought it would be before "papa took a tumble to himself.

  • That nice boy's in love with you,' said Lady John, sotto voce.

  • Which rendered him sotto voce with gratification.

  • As he remarked sotto voce to Neils Halvorsen, five hundred dollars wasn't picked up in the street every day.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sotto voce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    according unto thy word; adequate system; another hour; fair field; frequently seen; giving offence; heartily wish; interesting letter; life would; means easy; much depends; nearly similar; neither good nor evil; parliament assembled; particular person; peace time; ready sale; second reading; sent free; sotto voce; use permit only and generally restricted; while she