Sentence examples for indicate tone from inspiring English sources

Millepied occasionally stepped into Lugo's place, marking the steps in his sneakers, to indicate tone and tempo.

In scholarly transcriptions of Hausa, accent marks indicate tone, which may be high (acute), low (grave), or falling (circumflex).

Like Wade-Giles, it does not indicate tone and adds nothing, except the needless complication of having to know two systems and maintain two library catalogues.

These markings — which were, in fact, invented by a scholar working at the Library of Alexandria who wanted to help readers of Greek texts know what to do with their voices as they read aloud — indicate tone: where the voice is meant to go up, down, or up-and-then-down.

Like choosing an emoji, or the number of Ys in "Hey," or any of the other visual cues we use in written communication to indicate tone and purpose, using a period to end a text has become a delicate operation. .

Without my voice to indicate tone, I have to rely on my words and when words don't cut it, I turn to enthusiastic exclamation points and gold-star-sticker language (Awesome! Great! You rock!).

The basic form is then modified to indicate tones 2, 3 and 4.

Originally, these marks indicated tone or pitch, not stress.

Look for diacritics indicating tone.

Numbers indicate each tone position relative to deviant tones.

But as those references might indicate, its tone seemed, as with Cronenberg, somewhat at odds with its country of origin.