Sentence examples for a piercing tone from inspiring English sources
After four minutes, there was a piercing tone from the piccolo, and then a moment's silence.
Henderson describes it as "an uncanny piercing tone that takes off, Eastern-sounding beyond the range of the guitar" and, according to Shadwick, "gives the impression that the guitar notes are flying off into the ether".
"We could have made it a little bit of a looser, less piercing tone, but we really just went for it," Perry said.
Audio clip: "Duna Ma Yelema" Many Malian singers use the piercing tone of griots, whose voices once carried without microphones.
The players made the clashing dissonances ever more shocking by executing them with such focused and piercing tone.
— with some of what she's heard about him; her piercing tone demands honesty, or else.
One man's gold is another man's strident, piercing tone that carries all the way into the dry sauna.
In true Addams family fashion, Wednesday effortlessly scares the men with her piercing tone and sardonic comebacks.
Whether through absorption or accident, tones throughout the evening suggested guitarists ranging from Robert Fripp of King Crimson -- that clean, piercing tone -- and Andy Summers of the Police to Jimmy Page, John Lee Hooker and Pat Metheny.
One passage toward the end of the Adagio of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony was emblematic: violins and cellos glided variously downward and upward in stepwise motion while flutes and a clarinet sustained shining but never piercing tones.
