Example sentences for: overtones

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

  • Similarly, the phrase recorded live , while it suggests the overtones of a concert rather than a studio performance, may still sound odd to an untrained ear (this may be termed sound mixing, in a double sense).

  • Fact: the word was already taking on prejudicial overtones a century and a half ago.

  • Just compare the overtones and associations of the psalm with the -th and the -s endings:

  • The liberal overtones of this synthesis are not surprising when you consider where the National Greatness cons come from.

  • And of course a large mass murder at a high school, especially with the Nazi and goth and geek overtones, resonates with the public, and media, more than day traders in Atlanta, but the coverage was mind-numbing.


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