How to Use contralto in a Sentence

contralto

noun

• The quiet storm of Sade’s contralto fills the room—a sign that Kris Jenner has, at least for the moment, control of the playlist.
  — Jonathan Van Meter, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
• At 42, the contralto opera singer had performed to acclaim throughout the United States and Europe.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
• Which leads to the following question: What actress can nail Holmes’s contralto and Steve Jobs cosplay?
  — Chris Murphy, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2021
• Roberts's contralto voice grounds a Lina set adrift in a confusing universe of puppets and apparitions.
  — Irene Hsiao, Chicago Reader, 30 May 2018
• Apple, with her singular smoky contralto, modelled the complex emotions of the line for Amber, warming her up to record.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Singing soulfully but very quietly at first, her rich contralto builds in perfect sync with the stately tempo.
  — Bill Adler, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• Ms. Amereau is herself something of a welcome throwback at a time when countertenors have all but displaced contraltos in early music.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• Her movements still retain the fluid lines of a dancer, and her voice has matured into a craggy contralto that penetrates the audio haze of a busy bar, but never farther than a few feet.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2017
• Joe, for example, is described as heavily breathing, and so the sound of breath became a jumping-off point for my use of woodwind instruments like the contralto clarinet and the flute.
  — Paige Hymson, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• Milosh, who formed Rhye with producer Robin Hannibal but now works it as a solo project, is best known for his breathy, androgynous contralto.
  — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
• Vocally, the range of Frida goes from extremely low, contralto-land to soprano-land.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 22 June 2017
• Sierra is a mezzo-soprano or mezzo, which is a type of classical female singing voice with a vocal range that lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.
  — Chuck Fieldman, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2021
• Doris Day was the model of femininity, not a woman with long black hair, a big nose and an androgynous, almost manly contralto voice.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 18 May 2017
• Odetta was the secret-agent contralto, amplifying a history of pain others were using for sing-alongs.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2022
• Survivors include his daughter, contralto Sonya Alexandra Knussen of Baltimore; a brother; and a sister.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
• Cuervo’s monologues were delivered in a dusky contralto.
  — Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2017
• Caroline Unger, the contralto at the premiere, gets credit for turning the deaf Beethoven toward the wildly applauding audience, which gave five standing ovations.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 21 Sep. 2017
• Melina Jaharis brought a rich contralto to Ma Moss, Laurie's widowed mother, who lives an unrealized life through her daughters.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 May 2017
• From Natalie’s powerful contralto to the lush orchestrations to the ethereal piano, this is a work of consummate songcraft.
  — Daniel De Visé, SPIN, 13 Sep. 2022
• Handel wanted the villain Polinesso to be a second castrato, but none was available, so a contralto created the part.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
• Meredith Arwady unleashes her huge contralto as the comic babushka Amelfa.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Because Batton is a mezzo-soprano and contralto, her roles aren’t limited to younger character roles.
  — Elizabeth Kramer, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2017
• The two characters are each embodied by two onstage singers (the woman by a soprano and a contralto, and the man by a baritone and a countertenor), as well as by prerecorded alto and tenor parts and an offstage chorus of sixteen voices.
  — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 7 Dec. 2019
• Even at the height of her fame, African-American contralto singer Marian Anderson encountered barriers erected solely because of the color of her skin.
  — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2014
• In this documentary, director Rita Coburn salutes the famed contralto and international star who broke through racial barriers and became an icon in the civil rights movement.
  — Craig D Lindsey, Chron, 11 Nov. 2022
• By all reports, her wide-ranging contralto possessed the kind of resonant halo that technology is helpless to reproduce.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
• Bullock's voice is deeply rich and richly deep, with both the qualities of Anderson's expressive contralto and Price's electrifying climaxes.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The singer-songwriter’s distinctive contralto voice is still intact — these days sounding deeper, grittier.
  — Michael James Rocha, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
• Avery Amereau was a party-girl Olga; although billed as a contralto, her timbre was paradoxically brighter than Jakubiak’s soprano.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
• The snare drum death march and the psychedelic Jefferson Airplane-like flourishes seem to accentuate Dylan’s vitriolic, unforgiving words in a silly way, but Cher’s steadfast contralto grounds the affair.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024