Example sentences for: intonation

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

  • Voice intonation and body language complicate the communication process further.

  • Disconcerting because his voice has the same intonation, the same accent, the same creamy richness as his father's.

  • They are mistakes at sentence level rather than word level; prosodic rather than lexical mistakes; mistakes of stress, intonation, and syntactic segmenting: in effect, accentuating the wrong word or syllable, modulating the pitch incorrectly (a rising rather than falling tone, say, or a questioning rather than affirming tone), and pausing in the wrong place.

  • Traditional Japanese drama, because of its stylization, extravagant gesture, and solemn or even bizarre intonation, might be difficult for Westerners.

  • It is, too--remember the time when Tony is getting ready to call it quits with Melfi and she asks, in her protracted, oracular intonation: "What do you want to say to me?"


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