Sentence examples for an undertone from inspiring English sources

An underlying meaning; an undertone.

An off-white wall may have an undertone of yellow, for instance.

Or was that theme more of an undertone for you?

But an undertone of personal recrimination has become increasingly strident.

"There's an undertone of bad politics and corruption.

And there is an undertone of political realities at work.

Buenos Aires has an undertone of inexpressible loneliness & sadness.

Sometimes their skin is so dark it has "an undertone of blueberries".

I began to sense in it something mocking, an undertone I had not heard at first.

Everything Mr. Tyrell sang had an undertone of aw-shucks cool.

If you have a warm undertone, use a foundation with a yellow or golden base.