Example sentences for: tenor

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

  • But from a distance, he seems pretty good at making the trains run on time without Giuliani's authoritarian tenor.

  • 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.

  • Chat rooms have become astonishingly intolerant places, where anyone who dares dissent from the general rah-rah tenor is branded a traitor and pretty much hounded out of the site.

  • (This is also the tenor of the USAT front-page Albright piece.)

  • Matthews' idea of "hardball" (aside from titling his show and his book identically, so every pause for a commercial embeds a book plug) seems to be to yell four half-coherent questions in a row in a querulous, Bostonian tenor.


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