Example Sentences

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His trebly, confessional voice steps deliberately on its own cracks, and he treats his gut-level lyrics with care.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

But the record was so good: four songs, scratchy, trebly.

From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2018

During one Loueke showcase, his distorted voice occupied the same trebly range as his guitar wailings and scrapings.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2017

“The worst thing that someone has done is not who that person is. That is trebly so when you’re talking about a kid,” she says.

From Slate • May 8, 2017

Last night I lay awake amid the dark, Hearing the music of the fount without My window; sharply, trebly sweet it broke The heavy, voiceless gloom of slumbering Nature and sleeping men.

From Virginia, A Tragedy And Other Poems by Gilmore, Marion Forster