Sentence examples for a passive tone from inspiring English sources

"This park will always have a passive tone to it," she said, using a term that implies light use and limited infrastructure.

In his email to Cynthia Mobley, Benson mused that "maybe the prison authorities would even allow us to give him plastic utensils," a passive tone that struck representatives for Mobley as odd, as the US is Yemen's most powerful foreign benefactor.

With regards to the name, my parents don't speak English very well, so as long as I say "fuck" or any other swear-word in a passive tone, they don't pick up it's a bad word, ha ha..

However, P15's suggestion that "certain things can happen to you" denotes a passive tone; it lacks an active voice.

But the use of the phrase "pussy" on air and onstage marked a dramatic change from Trump's more passive tone in recent weeks.

We'd do this dance for a while, him pushing harder, me saying, "No," but again in that passive tone.

"Most of the time we know we're right, but we add in passive tone subconsciously which has negative impacts on others confidence in our message.

The changes in contractility before and during stretch were quantified by measuring the area under the active tension curve above the level of passive tone (AUC).

The neurologic subscale is further divided into four parts testing passive tone, active tone, primary reflexes, and general neurologic status.

As spontaneous tone development was greatest following the stretch protocol which increased tension to 2.5 times passive tone, this amplitude of stretch was chosen for further studies.

These criteria assess five general areas: 1) adaptive capacity; 2) passive tone; 3) active tone; 4) primary reflexes; and 5) alertness, crying, and motor activity.