Now her voice sounded not nervous but somehow dead.

It sounded a little dead, but I didn't know how far it was going.

When he spoke, his voice sounded dead, wooden, even in his own ears.

But the word sounded cold and dead in his throat.

Her voice was distant, without inflection; it sounded almost dead.

His voice sounded dead, but the menace was clear.

If a human voice could sound dead, Sam told himself, Kelly's did.

Carrot's voice sounded dead and featureless in the dull air.

His voice sounded dead in the still air of the hollow.

"I didn't mean for it to happen," he said, his voice sounding dead.