Example sentences for: tenor

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

  • The title probably belongs to Plácido Domingo, the globetrotting tenor.

  • For example, James Garner's Rockford dubbed as a Japanese tenor is a reminder of one's firm awareness of Garner's American tone and timbre.

  • 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.

  • To hold one's fist stiffly in the air in a gesture of ridiculous defiance while the bass amplifier thundered and the guitar shrieked and our man on tenor sax honked deliriously, and to see a barroom audience respond with shouts and their own idiotic fists in the beery air--that was to laugh.

  • This new sound prefigured white, California cool jazz, but so had Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for Duke Ellington through the '40s, and so had Lester Young's diaphanous tenor saxophone playing with Count Basie even earlier.


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