Meanings of clipped tones in English

He has the eyes of an eagle, the man said in clipped tones.

She didn't shout, but I recognized the controlled, clipped tones.

Chapman brought the phone closer to his mouth and spoke in urgent, clipped tones.

The female CEO spoke in clipped tones, as if biting off the end of each word.

His accent still retains clipped tones from the time he spent in Cambridge with his father.

He spoke in the abrupt, clipped tones of northern In-World, where-orso Depape had heard-reindeer-fuckingwasstill considered the chief sport.

She stared at him for a few beats before saying in clipped tones, Call back when you have a buyer for the heart.

Jack was from Dallas, and he spoke in powerful, clipped tones that convinced the listener instantly that he knew exactly what he was doing.

Instead, he was given five minutes to answer questions from the newshead, Wilma Perez Szuchen, a statuesque redhead who spoke in loud and clipped tones.

"None of that will be necessary, of course," he said in clipped tones.

"That would be Draken and Myrrima," she said in clipped tones.

"Joanne Walker," Morrison said in clipped tones, "is a police officer under my command.

"Aim at the lower stomach," he commanded in clipped tones.

"Things have changed," Dante retorted, swiftly revealing the latest attack upon Abby in clipped tones.

"Compliments of my father in one of his drunken furies," she said in clipped tones.

"I am he," he said in clipped tones.