Example sentences for: tone

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

  • There was the bullying portentous tone, which said, "This is unbelievably important--so you, shut up."

  • My greatest objection to it is its argumentative, disputatious tone, which frequently borders on the vituperative.

  • Have a nice day (a sincere wish, expressing my hope that the reproving tone of my missive will not tarnish your humor).

  • At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people.

  • The tone is very different from, for example, that of the show of Socialist Realist paintings I saw a few years ago at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, which approached the subject in the usual pop-camp way--nearly every picture looked like a parody, and any of them could have been hung very nicely next to Andy Warhol's Mao . But the paintings in Matthew Cullerne Bown's book, grave and dignified and often eager to claim descent from the likes of Rembrandt, would be affronted by the pairing.


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