Idiom
throw one's voice
Meaning
to make one’s voice appear to come from somewhere else
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The performer can throw his voice to make the puppet talk.”
“The magician surprised the audience when he managed to throw his voice across the room.”
“By learning to throw his voice, the ventriloquist created the illusion that a distant, unseen character was speaking directly to the crowd.”
Examples
simple
“The performer can throw his voice to make the puppet talk.”
contextual
“The magician surprised the audience when he managed to throw his voice across the room.”
complex
“By learning to throw his voice, the ventriloquist created the illusion that a distant, unseen character was speaking directly to the crowd.”
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