"A girl needs her accessories," the voice said, sounding playful.

She tried to sound playful, but somehow the words came out the wrong way.

She sounded almost playful with the question.

He might have been trying to sound playful, but the words came out just plain weary.

'Well, I don't quite know,' she said and hoped she sounded playful and cooperative.

The group got the name because it sounded playful, fresh and catchy to them.

His singing, which had sounded playful and mannered, instead seemed to reflect a struggle to get by, to force a word through clenched teeth.

Glair tried to sound playful as she said, 'I'm afraid that's it.

She sounded both playful and serious, and for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.

When Nigel sounded playful he was always at his most dangerous.