Breathy in a sentence

Examples are, Other languages with these contrasts are Bai (modal, breathy, and harsh voice), Kabiye (faucalized and harsh voice, previously seen as ±ATR ), Somali (breathy and harsh voice).

Combining field recordings of nature with breathy saxophone, electronic programming and delicate vocals, Laura Misch’s latest album, Sample the Sky, treads the line beautifully between jazz improvisation and artful songcraft.

During the emotional climax to "Barbie," Billie Eilish's breathy, dreamlike voice sings "What Was I Made For?" over grainy recordings of brides, mothers, grandmothers, families, and friends sharing tender moments.

Her breathy and gentle voice absolutely embodies heartbreak.

The film only gets as far as the beach, and James’ breathy line readings, and Scott Thomas’ icy supporting performance.

The first rendition was a washout, thin and breathy and peculiarly whiny.

The Shacks’ take on Ozuna’s iconic “Smile Now, Cry Later” opens the album, giving the song a breathy, ethereal quality that’s at once contemporary and nostalgic.

As an EDM giant, Zedd has mastered a wide range of different drop styles: therapeutic choral chants (“Clarity”), tinny trop-house squelches (“Stay”), high, breathy metallic shrieks (“The Middle”).

Performing at his mature finest, Banderas moves up and down the emotional register from mournful to puckish to regretful to freshly hopeful with a restraint that dials down Almodóvar's breathy melodrama almost to straight realism.

She was very breathy when we talked and appreciated me “sharing my practice” with her.

However, after each cycle – flatulent indie, breathy electro, murmuring rappers who only use vowels – is complete, the artists who participated rarely disappear; they just continue releasing music that fewer people care about.

Many thought she was channeling Marilyn Monroe singing a breathy “Happy Birthday” to President Kennedy.

What is most remarkable about ’s sonic legacy – the capacious production, the breathy, wounded vocals and snappy beats that occupy a liminal zone between electronica, indie and R&B – is the sheer scope of their influence.

Armenian main Most dialects of Armenian have aspirated stops, and some have breathy-voiced stops.

For example, Gujarati has vowels with a partially lax phonation called breathy voice or murmured, while Burmese has vowels with a partially tense phonation called creaky voice or laryngealized.

In English, there may be a brief segment of breathy voice that identifies the stop as voiceless and not voiced.

In some, such as the Polynesian languages, the vocal cords are required to actively open to allow an unimpeded (silent) airstream, which is sometimes called a breathed ( /ˈbrɛθt/ ) phonation (not to be confused with breathy voice ).

In the examples below, breathy voice is marked with a grave accent.

Nasal clicks may also vary, with plain voiced, breathy voiced / murmured nasal, aspirated, and unaspirated voiceless clicks attested (the last only in Taa).

Phonological property A number of languages use breathy voicing in a phonologically contrastive way.