All 3 Uses
monotone
in
The Fountainhead
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- He spoke in a monotone.†
Chpt 2.12 *
- She asked, in the same level monotone: "Whose opinion, Peter?†
Chpt 3.2
- "I can't understand it," he droned in an accentless monotone to anyone around him, "I can't understand how Ellsworth got so much power.... And Ellsworth's a man of culture, an idealist, not a dirty radical off a soapbox, he's so friendly and witty, and what an erudition!†
Chpt 4.15
Definitions:
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(1)
(monotone) sound unvarying in pitch -- especially the human voice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)