Words similar to tones

Example sentences for: tones

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

This is a place where everyone just hangs out, from students conversing in sententious tones, to punks in leather, and professionals in well-pressed suits.
Pushbutton phones often are arranged so that they may generate either pulses or tones (thus the switch).
For something like the sixth time in a month, a businessman I was talking to had just declared, in the tones of someone stating a profound insight, that the modern world economy no longer has room for scores of different national currencies--that the inexorable logic of globalization will soon force most countries to adopt the dollar, the euro, or the yen as their means of exchange.
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.
I wonder if Roth himself appreciates how lively and persuasive these tones are, how vividly they conjure up the Swede's reality.