Sentence examples for dipping pitch from inspiring English sources

First, they are tonal, so a rising, falling or dipping pitch changes a word's meaning.

The seven speech sounds varied acoustically according to a variety of features, including formant structure (/ba/, /ga/, /du/), duration (a 163 ms /da/), voice-onset-time (/ta/) and F0 (250 Hz /da/, /da/ with a dipping pitch contour).

As was common when casket burials of parts of the famous took place in the 14th century - such as heads - the lead containers were dipped in pitch or tar to help prevent deterioration.

From a position of such security, the singer can then go on to play with pitch, dipping and bending notes and adding filigree, but always with the ear and discipline of a musician who knows that a quarter-tone deviation is exactly 0.25, no more, no less.

The third tone is a dipping tone.The pitch goes from middle to low to high, like when you say the letter "B".

By mid-May, he led American League rookies in strikeouts, even though his 2-7 record suggests that his control grows elusive, his pitches dipping and darting like a kite on the wind.

His first ball is lovely, drifting through the air, dipping just before it pitches.

The first syllable is a rising tone (it starts low and ends high), while the second is a "dip" tone — its pitch dips in the middle.[6].

His trebuchets could hurl huge rocks, and smaller stones covered in flaming naphtha, and his arbalesters could shoot bolts dipped in burning pitch a distance of twenty-five hundred paces.

The Mongols used an "ox-bow" machine to throw bolts which had been dipped in burning pitch, with a range of 2500 paces.

He showed a great deal of grit on a slow, low pitch only occasionally dipping into his huge bag of attacking shots.