Sentence examples for falling pitch from inspiring English sources

The lightning generates waves at multiple frequencies, and the faster (higher-pitched) waves reached the sensors just before the slower (and lower-pitched ones), resulting in the signature falling pitch that gives these waves their name.

The perception of continuously rising or falling pitch was elicited by simply repeating a sequence of such Shepard tones.

Rising emotion was often expressed through falling pitch; "blue notes", of flattened thirds and fifths, are used in jazz and blues.

It is quite easy to hear the falling pitch of the second formant when whispering the series of words heed, hid, head, had, hod, hawed, hood, who'd.

The few apparent exceptions are due to intonation: nu-ga wassŏ (spoken with a rising pitch) 'Did someone come?', nu-ga wassŏ (spoken with a falling pitch) 'Who came?'.

Students take sentences apart to learn rhythm, emphasis, pauses and rising and falling pitch — elements that can convey as much information as words — and reinforce them with stair-hops and other physical exercises.

He created two songs designed to be agitating like a heavy-metal song and two designed to be calming like a ballad, using the standard structures of human music but utilizing the rising or falling pitches and durations of sounds in the monkey calls.

Once Jeter reached base with a one-out single in the first, Roberts began falling apart, pitch to pitch, losing command, obsessing over the ball-strike interpretations of the plate umpire.

Statements are characterized by falling terminal pitch, and questions by rising terminal pitch.

The song of the barn swallow is a cheerful warble, often ending with su-seer with the second note higher than the first but falling in pitch.

Benson was on a 95-pitch limit, but fell 20 pitches short after yielding 9 runs, 7 earned, on 10 hits in three and two-thirds innings.