Example sentences for: tones

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

  • But we read Quindlen, if we do, for her peppy style, and that emerges out of another tradition entirely--not the reformist rhetoric of Susan B. Anthony and Betty Friedan but the homespun, folksy, and often surprisingly liberal tones of an earlier era in American journalism, when newspaper editorialists and magazine editors and advice columnists elevated the anecdote of daily life to the status of gospel and did more than just about anyone else to invent our 20 th -century idea of everydayness.

  • The trademarked name, by AT&T, is touch-tone®, which operates by sending more-or-less musical tones from your instrument to the switch to specify the number desired.

  • Undistracted by flowers or too much color, you can see tones, lines, shapes, and light--the garden's pure form.

  • They invariably dial by the pulse method; although it is certainly technically feasible to arrange for them to dial with tones, nobody has figured out why anyone would want to do so.

  • "Behind Starr I would put a neutral or chocolate-brown background--but not black--so his flesh tones look good.


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