Example sentences for: undertones

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

  • According to the Sunday Times , the cult's leader, a con man called Joseph di Mambro, had made her a "high priestess" in a ghoulish quasireligious ceremony with strong sexual undertones, and got her to pay nearly $10 million into a Swiss bank.

  • By the same token, the sober observer of language ought not allow his emotions to get in the way of his cool evaluation of the facts (as he sees them), and a label like Illiterate has pejorative overtones and undertones inappropriate to the detached, scholarly view.


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