Example sentences for: high-toned

How can you use “high-toned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Brooks, the bulwark of liberal humanism at the furthest reaches of the galaxy on the stultifying TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , is too comfortable dropping high-toned pronouncements such as "Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't going to save you."

  • Lewis had lots of experience with snobbery from high-toned Negroes.

  • This is all pure Steiner: high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses.

  • But someone forgot to tell the writer-director, Rand Ravich, that a genre movie can't survive on fancy, high-toned portent alone--especially when the audience knows what's being portended before they even buy their tickets.

  • She has almond eyes, a luxuriant black mane made for high-toned hair commercials, and an upper lip that can flare or pout with silken ease.


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