VOCAL in a Sentence

Learn VOCAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
25 example sentences for VOCAL, such as:
1. The purring of the wheels became vocal.
2. The cantata has a difficult vocal score.
3. The vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent.
4. Refraining from producing speech or vocal sound.
5. I like instrumental music better than vocal music.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of VOCAL
vocal
 a.  having or using the power to produce speech or sound
 n.  a short musical composition with words
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Once a week the chapter assembles: the prioress presides; the vocal mothers assist.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
2  The vocal mothers consult after each confession and inflict the penance aloud.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
3  The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in showers.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
4  And the school-girls would begin to laugh, not in their sleeves, but under their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers frown.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE
5  The vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
6  The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers were probably assembled.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY
7  The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, under our altar.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—MOTHER INNOCENTE
8  That the prioress and the vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
9  A vocal mother, with her veil lowered, stood beside her.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
10  The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
11  This vocal exercise usually conquered Meg, but John sat as unmoved as the post which is popularly believed to be deaf.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
12  She thought that some of them had been laying violent hands on me; and, not daring to attack her master, she turned her vocal artillery against the younger scoundrel.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  Marija felt, so to speak, that she had her hand on the throttle, and the neighborhood was vocal with her rejoicings.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  The youth wondered what had happened to his vocal organs that he no more cursed.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
15  The purring of the wheels became vocal.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence:
1  Foley has been particularly vocal in his criticism of the government.
2  The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
3  The cantata has a difficult vocal score.
4  Her vocal range was, to say the least of it, limited, and she had a distressing tendency to sing flat.
5  There are distinct echoes of Elvis Presley in his vocal style.
6  Improvements to our education system will require relentless and vocal outcry from the parents whose children suffer most from the current schools.
7  I like instrumental music better than vocal music.
8  Refraining from producing speech or vocal sound.