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  • “Thooonk youuu,” Tally intoned in a dead-sounding voice, thrusting out her perky B-cup chest.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • “Thooonk youuu,” Tally intoned in a dead-sounding voice, thrusting out her perky B-cup chest.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • With people of Dobson-Flint's kind Wexford generally allowed his own manner to become dull and dead-sounding, and it was in a leaden voice that he asked, 'You live alone, sir?'

    The Speaker Of Mandarin Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1983

  • Only by day he spoke to her his dead-sounding words of love, kindled by the kisses of the accursed

    The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895

  • Valuable Lesson 16: A modestly priced sound system will often sound better with correct speaker placement in a good, dead-sounding room than a zillion-dollar system with bad speaker placement in an overly reverberant room.

    The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2009

  • The next time you run up against a dead-sounding CSR, though, remember that people like Jackie don't make for profitable collections department employees, which is why they don't stick around for long.

    The Consumerist 2009

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