How to Use whispery in a Sentence

whispery

adjective

• Booker's raw, whispery, sore throat of a voice isn't the stuff of roof-raising anthems.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Testifying in a wheel chair, Durst is thin and frail and speaks with a whispery voice.
  — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
• With its whispery, suggestive lyrics, the song sold more than 1 million copies, reached No.
  — Dinitia Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• At times whispery, at times bold, Eilish twists her voice deftly around the dark melody and trap-influenced beat.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 14 July 2017
• The tune is a whispery male-female duet by Leven Kali (the man) and Syd (the woman), sharing a promising flirtation.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The anxious, whispery voice on the phone was unmistakably [Princess] Diana.
  — WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• The acoustics that the orb's circular shape present means even a whispery wind may be transformed into a surround-sound concert.
  — Allison Tibaldi, CNN, 16 May 2017
• In a whispery call and response set atop dense drums and hallowed synths, the two echo one another from start to finish, never going into a verse alone.
  — Ludwig Hurtado, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2021
• Jackson's 1994 slow jam was seductive enough already as a standalone track, with its smooth rhythm and Janet's whispery vocals.
  — Nicole Demarco and Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Nov. 2018
• Throughout, her voice is but a beyond-falsetto whispery sliver.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 13 Dec. 2019
• Whispery textures and colors create space by pushing and pulling at a scrupulous flatness.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• There are three California lilacs with whispery purple buds to remember the triplets.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 30 July 2019
• Yet in Yaël Farber’s staging, whose spookiest bits were set in the midst of the audience, the usual ghosts and corpses came off as more than whispery premonitions.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• In fact, neutrinos have already hinted at the existence of a new type of whispery particle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2016
• All these whispery abstractions and cinephile allusions can feel like too much, or perhaps too little.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• Biden spoke emphatically at moments, almost shouting the first part of his speech, and in a whispery hush at others, lowering his voice to make a point.
  — Ashley Parker and Anne Gearan, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2021
• The other five novels are narrated by Mary Sarah who pollutes them with a travesty of an English accent in a voice that is whispery, dainty and twee.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2022
• An actress, brand ambassador and one of the most followed celebrities on Instagram, Gomez has also been a reliable, if not thrilling, provider of whispery pop hits.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• The voice — a take on the raspy, whispery tones of Mandalorian actor Pedro Pascal — came naturally, Adams said.
  — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
• Cooper’s vocals were mostly whispery, but could turn more assertive, bolstered briefly by Tobias’s voice.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• Listening to the set’s expansive cross-section of material, one is struck by the warm, whispery quality of Ms. Gentry’s voice.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2018
• The couple manages to stay pretty under the radar, both individually and as a combined unit—in fact, despite a lot of whispery rumors over the years, the two of them were only just photographed together last fall.
  — Krystin Arneson, Glamour, 28 Jan. 2018
• Ysabelle provides listeners a beautiful, whispery piano cover of the record.
  — David Rishty, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2017
• Crowe, a world-class bellower, only occasionally flips the switch from whispery, methodical creepiness to full-on scenery chomping.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2019
• Alex Seaver of Mako also delivers whispery vocals that create a chilling experience for the listener.
  — Rachel George, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2018
• The single features soft guitar riffs and Gallo’s whispery vocals, accompanied by a mesmerizing video.
  — Nina Braca, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
• One of the saddest, prettiest compositions in the history of rock, Lou Reed’s whispery ballad invokes love, infidelity, memory and regret.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2019
• The clip from Arrival, which included loud, ominous tones and whispery dialogue, benefited the most from the soundbar–specifically from its center tweeter, which was designed to amplify dialogue.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 6 June 2018
• Holter masterfully makes recordings that feel delicate and intimate while also layering them with instrumentation and sounds, a sort of whispery modern version of chamber pop.
  — Houston Chronicle, 18 July 2019
• Her conquest of 2019 happened through sensation and spectacle, with her spider-laden visuals and whispery sound creating the thrilling illusion—witnessed previously with punk, metal, and Harry Potter—of an entire youth cohort turned demonic.
  — The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2019

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