disembodied voice

collocation in English

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disembodied
adjective
uk
/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbɒd.id/us
/ˌdɪs.ɪmˈbɑː.did/
seeming not to have a body or not to be connected to ...
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voice
noun
uk
/vɔɪs/us
/vɔɪs/
the sounds that are made when people speak ...
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Of course thedisembodiedvoicehad come under attack before, at different times by different social groups.
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Hhada is forced to accept the terms of the proposition put to her by thedisembodiedvoiceof authority.
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Apollo also offered her perpetual youth in return for her love, but she denied him, and so her body aged and wasted away until she became adisembodiedvoice.
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Adisembodiedvoicecalls to him, and he descends into the cellar to investigate.
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Meanwhile, the sidekicks are awoken by adisembodiedvoiceto find themselves strapped in pods and the clone in a trance.
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He wakes up in a room with adisembodiedvoicetelling him that he is in prison again and has been sentenced to death.
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When, at last, he grants an audience to all of them at once, he seems to be adisembodiedvoice.
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Adisembodiedvoiceannounces that her life depends on the exam questions he will set for them, and that a student will die for every question the class gets wrong.
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Beetlejuice'sdisembodiedvoicedirects guests to say his name three times, then he arrives on stage.
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It begins with disembodied voices in the darkness.
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Adisembodiedvoicetells her to make herself comfortable, and she is entertained at a feast that serves itself and by singing to an invisible lyre.
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Conan is talking and hears adisembodiedvoicesinging, and a ghost appears next to his desk.
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While classic voice-over narration may hector us with useful information assumed reliable, other disembodied voices are, notoriously, not merely disorientating but terrifying.
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People claim to see figures in the windows and hear disembodied voices inside the house.
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Disembodied voices have been heard as well as mysterious footsteps.
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Paranormal activities are disembodied voices and spooky footsteps in that same basement.
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Disembodied voices and unexplained noises are frequently reported by tourists at this location.
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In her memoirs she claimed that she started seeing spirits and hearing disembodied voices in childhood, and developed these abilities further once she joined a local spiritualist church.
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Wilson suffers from auditory hallucinations, and has been formally diagnosed as mildly manic-depressive with schizoaffective disorder that presents itself in the form of disembodied voices.
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