| 单词 | tunelessly |
| 例句 | Brother Thomas walked very swiftly: heel and toe, heel and toe, whistling tunelessly under his breath as he went. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Humming tunelessly, he felt his way up the stairs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Back in his bedroom he finished dressing hurriedly, whistling tunelessly as he stooped to grease and comb his hair before the mirror inside his wardrobe. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Still in the grave, he and Nettle sang tunelessly for Turner’s benefit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Outside the wind blew, and on the floor near the fire little Bethan, humming tunelessly, sorted acorns into families. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He went by humming tunelessly, apparently fearing neither patrollers nor any other dangers of the night. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When Hodor came bustling in, smiling and humming tunelessly, he found the boy resigned to his fate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The first part of this was obviously untrue for someone had begun to whistle "The Rosary," tunelessly, inside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z As we sat waiting on the courtroom benches, she hummed tunelessly and sketched the other spectators. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He liked Bob Dylan, and sang his songs quite tunelessly around the house. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-08-11T11:15:01Z Its ghastly victims shrill and croon tunelessly from dawn until dusk. Alter Argo: Iranian film to tell other side of hostage crisis 2013-01-11T17:37:56Z They've gone to tunelessly wail alongside, then dance in front of, the choir invisible. X-terminated 2010-03-16T16:14:00Z A young man playing the accordion gets on at Oxford Circus; "playing" overstates it – he is striking the keys tunelessly. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z In the bleak winter of 1989, as I banged away tunelessly on the keyboard in the basement of my college dorm, a stranger walked in, shivering, his face wrapped in bandages. David Bowie changed me more than he changed you 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z I vividly remember, aged four, coming into a room and hearing a child singing, tunelessly, and raucously. My father paid four times his weekly wage for the greatest gift of my life 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z I only mention this after the first episode opened with a 45-year-old woman doing a chicken dance while blowing tunelessly into a harmonica. Britain's Got Talent: still must-watch TV? 2011-04-13T15:18:12Z When Elsa speaks, she sounds like Dietrich, but when she sings onstage, she looks like the Betty White of the Weimar Republic, crooning tunelessly in a powder-blue tuxedo, yellowing perm and bright blue eye shadow. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Instantly, the songs blended tunelessly into a cheer: It was assumed — though never actually established — that the man with the portrait was an actual Saudi, rather than a local, cosplay version. In Newcastle, Songs Drown Out the Hard Questions 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z He sings along, tunelessly, with 1960s and 1970s folk rock on car radios, takes long walks with his wife and adores his grandchildren. The Bernie Sanders Personality Test 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z She sat there, arms around knees, and hummed tunelessly to herself. Sparrowfall : Nature : Nature Research 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But recorder, as played tunelessly by children since time immemorial. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon recording console heads to auction 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z In a manner of speaking, it's just swaying in the breeze: arms flapping, mouth tunelessly singing, as it reacts to its surroundings. This 'self-guided' robot is about as sentient as a wind chime 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The birds must be careful to sing a decent song, because the fussy females are more attracted to a male with a fine voice, rather than one which chirps tunelessly. Testosterone Makes Birds Louder But Less Attractive. So What About Humans? 2014-01-02T13:01:00Z We want a facial tattoo, men with breasts, and Mike Tyson tunelessly singing "One Night in Bangkok." Bangkok's Lucrative Hangover: Sex, Drugs and Popular Sequels 2011-06-20T23:15:00Z One girl skipped across to her friends shaking a flag and tunelessly sing the chorus to God Save the Queen. British Stiff Upper Lip Goes Wobbly For Will And Kate 2011-04-29T16:19:06Z A mournful bitter laugh breaks from Cecilia, a laugh that ends swiftly, tunelessly, as it began. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z As well as T-shirts, dresses, hats and earrings, even the countless vuvuzelas parping tunelessly throughout the streets were a uniform fluorescent amber. World Cup 2010 final: Amsterdam and Barcelona come to sweaty standstill 2010-07-11T19:13:00Z Band Aid-style holding of headphones to ears with fingertips while bawling tunelessly? The Joy of Six: Awful World Cup songs 2010-04-30T09:01:00Z Peckover whistled uncomfortably and tunelessly through his clenched teeth; a more elaborate expression of feeling he did not feel equal to. A Poached Peerage Temple lit a cigarette with shaking fingers, made his way to Arkalion's bed while the man hummed tunelessly at the sink. Voyage To Eternity He strolled arrogantly out into the knee-high grass, crossbow over his shoulder, whistling tunelessly through his teeth. The Ethical Engineer Through his mind ran the insistent repetition of an old song he knew, and he hummed it tunelessly through closed teeth. Sound of Terror Banasel was whistling tunelessly as he set up readings on a computer. The Players Cheerfully and tunelessly he warbled a cowboy ditty as he packed his supplies and prepared to go. Oh, You Tex! He laughed rather tunelessly at his own bitter jest, and after a brief silence, recovered his accustomed manner. Agatha's Husband A Novel Upon one twig of the tree sate a huge black bird, looking on me with a fiery glance, and singing hoarsely and tunelessly, while the tempest and flame rioted around him. The Home He turned to a filing cabinet, unlocked it and searched through it, whistling tunelessly. Rebels of the Red Planet He avoided her eyes, looking up the street and whistling tunelessly beneath his breath. The Letter of the Contract Not until the orchestra in the lodge beyond the hedge had begun tunelessly to strum their instruments, to insure their later tunefulness, did she reluctantly abandon her position at the window. Then I'll Come Back to You I had been so sure that I was alone that this discovery startled me a little, and I began to whistle tunelessly. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy Our babies hear few cradle songs under the new régime, except such as are crooned, more or less tunelessly, by foreign nurses. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) He got so much elation out of this resolve that from the electric car to Rodney Temple's house he walked with a swinging stride, whistling tunelessly beneath his breath. The Street Called Straight She could hear, too, the rustle of the newspaper in his hand as he ascended, softly and tunelessly whistling. The Letter of the Contract He whistled over the job cheerily and tunelessly, glancing now and again with a keen, birdlike intelligence towards the motionless figure twenty yards away that sat with bent head broiling in the sun. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories He laughed at her and went his way, humming tunelessly after his own peculiarly volatile fashion. The Way of an Eagle Willie whistled tunelessly through his teeth; Macgregor kept his jaw set and occasionally and inadvertently kicked a loose stone. Wee Macgreegor Enlists If he had not piped so stridently, we should not have had half so much sport; yet small largess does the miserable minstrel get for tooting tunelessly. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Chip would be coming and going and whistling tunelessly all over the house. The Letter of the Contract Arthur, who was stropping a razor and whistling tunelessly, raised his eyebrows. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories There was an unbending, too, when we used to sing together, in my case very tunelessly. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Those of the Bed Liners whose windpipes still registered above 32 degrees hopelessly and tunelessly joined in. Strictly business: more stories of the four million |
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