Tone in a sentence

Abernathy, the Republican consultant, said she’d picked up a distinctly condescending tone from reporters and TV producers.

Vice President Harris, we hear your shift in tone, but I’m here to tell you your tone will not resurrect the dead.

Split tone : Trumpeters can produce more than one tone simultaneously by vibrating the two lips at different speeds.

That is, a word which has a high tone in one language will have a cognate with a low tone in another, and vice versa.

We had a great director in Chris McKay, who was really watching the tone, and we were fitting in with that tone.

There are five basic tone diacritics and five basic tone letters, both sets of which are compounded for contour tones.

Tonal sandhi processes like tone spread, tone shift, and downstep and downdrift are common in African languages.

Addie Elliott helped set the tone with a pair of early triples that provided a lift for the Huskies (25-1) as they built a 14-3 advantage.

This was done by emitting the tones in reverse order, with the All Clear tone followed by the Red Warning tone.

This wolf tone must be eliminated or significantly reduced for the cello to play the nearby notes with a pleasant tone.

Leeuw 2005, 166. Nonstandard tone rows Prime form of five note tone row from Igor Stravinsky 's In memoriam Dylan Thomas.

The finest emerald are approximately 75% tone on a scale where 0% tone would be colorless and 100% would be opaque black.

A consolidative tone has emerged, and the greenback has traded down to almost CAD1.3720.

If the murmured consonant was at the beginning of a word, it left behind a low tone; at the end, it left begind a high tone.

He sets the tone for this franchise, and the tone within this organization at the moment is dead serious.

This current was used to control a tone generator (a modulator ), the current determining the frequency of the tone produced.

Syllables can sometimes be toneless and are described as having a neutral tone, typically indicated by omitting tone markings.

Considine, pgs. 97–98 Crawford and Tone much later rekindled their friendship and Tone even proposed in 1964 that they remarry.

Similarly, in some two-tone languages, only one tone is marked explicitly, usually the less common one.

Screenwriter Ernest Lehman originally wrote the film with a dark tone but was pushed to a lighter, more comical tone by Hitchcock.