Words similar to octave

Example sentences for: octave

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

He drops his voice an octave and bellows lines like "Drag your pimply ass in here and say hello to the guys--show some class f'r chrissakes" in a way that transcends caricature.
Each of the sixty-two Heath Robinsons—Rube Goldbergs to you Americans—here illustrated conceals a miniature harmonica (diatonic and with the range of a full octave).
This is elegantly put and close to inarguable: If Beethoven had a five-and-a-half octave instrument at his disposal, the music he wrote for it probably would demand the highest and the lowest notes of that five-and-a-half octave span.
Then his voice drops an octave or two, and he becomes more subdued.
As Emmet Ray, the fictional 1940s jazz guitarist in Woody Allen's unexpectedly delectable Sweet and Lowdown , he lifts his voice about an octave and wears a small waxed mustache as if it were a fancy hood ornament.