Raising his voice to compete with the wind, he said, "Are you really certain Claudette's not sick?"

The single, unaccompanied voice can't compete with those images.

"Right now, it's all about wires," she said, her voice competing with a symphony of power tools.

One cannot read far into this personal recollection without noticing that three voices compete to own it.

The girls' voices competed from the top of the stairs.

Through the barred door behind the visiting table he could hear a hundred voices competing and echoing in a metallic din.

Out of the street leading to the waterfront came a din with which the mere human voice could not compete.

The salesperson's voice may be competing for the buyers' attention with the flashing lights and noise of the equipment.

On it the singer's voice competes with the sounds of loudly chirping crickets.

Somewhere deeper in the park birds sang, their voices competing with the drone of traffic.