Example sentences for: tones

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

  • Queen Amidala, done up like a white-faced Chinese empress in hanging beads and glass balls and a hat with curly horns, speaks in tones from which emotion has been expunged, perhaps on the theory that subjects won't argue with a ruler who puts them to sleep: "I ...

  • 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.

  • ) Even nonconservatives praise Watts in somewhat patronizing tones.

  • : "He tore off his clothes and went running through the office shrieking, 'I can't stand these earth tones.

  • But the peculiar virtue of this characterless character is that he requires Roth to write about him in an ever-shifting series of tones, each more precise than the last, in an effort to define what cannot be defined.


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