monotone

Their carefully scripted words, examined beforehand no doubt by a phalanx of spinmeisters, were barely above a monotone.

Braye spoke in a monotone, his eyes on the floor, his hands nervously twitching.

A plaintive, tremulous voice began to recite in monotone some stanzas which told how very sad and mournful the whole scene was.

The door safely shut, she turned a steady look upon Periors rough head, silhouetted in monotone on the pale landscape outside.

We turned from the contemplation of these two memorials and the monotone of the old monk's prayer filled the church.

Nature in primitive wildness encompassed us, but life's song never ran into a monotone.