sotto voce in English

adverb
1
(of singing or a spoken remark) in a quiet voice, as if not to be overheard.
“It won't be cheap,” he added sotto voce
adverb

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1. He uttered a curse sotto voce.

2. The remark was uttered sotto voce.

3. 'You'll be sorry,' he muttered sotto voce.

4. 'No, it was Daniel,' she continued, sotto voce.

5. Hearing your sotto voce cursing from three rooms away. Sentencedict.com

6. The defendant leant forward and spoke to his barrister, sotto voce.

7. Scholars who know better are cowed, indifferent or, sotto voce, disdainful.

8. Synonyms for Breathy voice include stage whisper, murmur, mutter, aside, loud whisper, sotto voce, whisper and whispering

9. " Meanwhile, sotto voce, the message emerging from IBM's research labs was that "we can tell machines to be smart! "

10. Uncertainty makes us uneasy. Knowing this is against our inner being which is programmed with sotto voce of seeking certainty.

11. " Only after the fact did I realise that I had said the words penis and vagina and sex in a strained, sotto voce tone.

12. Only a wealthy Wall Street chief executive could have undertaken Tuesday's sotto voce nationalization of the U. S. banking system - and saved the economy from collapse.

13. NEW YORK — Frank Wess, the great ex-Count Basie tenor saxophonist, Chuffs out a subtle story through the bell of his horn, as Victor Goines leads the Juilliard Jazz Band, sotto voce.

14. Only after the fact did I realise that I had said the words penis and vagina and sex in a strained, sotto voce tone. This was also something my own mother would have done.