Sample Sentences foroctave (auto-selected)
octave as in: has a four-octave range
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When I speak, my voice seems to have dropped an octave.† (source)
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Ralph's breath failed; the note dropped the octave, became a low wubber, was a rush of air.† (source)
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My voice was now an octave higher than Meg's.† (source)
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All this stuff"—her voice mockingly rose an octave—" 'Mary Carson made him do it.† (source)
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But then the barking moved up an octave and turned into yapping.† (source)
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'Someone's dead,' said Malfoy and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it.† (source)
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Then rising an octave like "The Star-Spangled Banner": "God stirred up the holy spirit of a man named Daniel!"† (source)
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Dell found his voice rising two octaves.† (source)
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"A man named Seth Hubbard," Stillman said, an octave higher but still not loud enough to draw the attention of anyone in the office of the Ford County Chancery Clerk.† (source)
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My feet shuffled and my voice lowered a few octaves.† (source)
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Two of the waterspouts were close now, their sound a blast of every octave and pitch as they ground their way through the atmosphere.† (source)
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Of course not; just shifted voder a couple of octaves.† (source)
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His voice goes up an octave.† (source)
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My voice had risen its usual uncontrolled octaves, becoming an epicene mezzo-soprano.† (source)
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The voice from the radio—it had dropped an octave, altered pitch, slowed and lengthened measurably—was now that of someone's wayward uncle confiding the secrets of his golf game; now it miraculously glided through a tongue twister; now it suddenly sensed great depths of meaning in an ordinary double play.† (source)
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His voice was deep, yet strangely soft and lilting; like the bush boy's, only several octaves lower.† (source)
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