Sentence examples for overtone on from inspiring English sources

Now perform an overtone on this for an A. Press the register key down without the thumb down.

Since some real pearls don't have a visible overtone, not seeing an overtone on your pearl isn't necessarily a sure sign that it's fake.

The issue has strong emotional overtones on both sides of the political divide.

A diversion has been created with a quickie Esther Williams number, an on water matter – with woodland overtones on land.

There are also a variety of same-sex wedding celebrations, some with commercial or promotional overtones, on the agenda over the next days and months.

"My recent work has focused on understanding how variations in the speed of sound during inflation imprints distinct overtones on the echo".

The music is distorted in such a way that you can hear many harmonic overtones on top of the original notes.

A track called "Secret Hobbies" lurches and then lunges through a haze of distorted overtones; on "Legion" the glacial crush of doom metal gives way to something sweaty and spasmodic.

The complexities of the case took on diplomatic overtones on Thursday when the State Department said Washington had told the British and other authorities that Mr. Megrahi "should spend the rest of his time in jail".

Accused by Socialists and Communists of rhetoric fraught with fascist overtones on immigration and security, and slammed by an investigative Web site charging that Muammar el-Qaddafi offered Sarkozy a 2007 campaign contribution of 50 million euros, or about $66 million, Sarko threatened to file a complaint against the Web site and used D.S.K.'s reappearance to try to reclaim moral high ground.

He composed the opera Mother of Three Sons as a collaboration with dancer Bill T Jones; reworked the Faust legend with hip-hop overtones on 1994's Fresh Faust; and followed it with "a cantata for the departed" called The Negroes Burial Ground in 1996 and the opera The Three Willies.