Example sentences for: tenor

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

  • His starchy tenor is certainly among its most recognizable voices.

  • The four images on its cover, for example, dryly sum up the tenor of Stalin's regime.

  • This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.

  • Complaints: 1) Gatsby (sung by tenor Jerry Hadley) lacks "the vocal flexibility or top notes to capture Gatsby's sentimental underbelly and heroic decency" (Philip Kennicott, the Washington Post ); 2) it's slow (Gatsby takes 45 minutes to show up).

  • “[the tenor] brings the opera to its climax in his final suicide.”


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