Sentence examples for rising note from inspiring English sources

The moaning cut off abruptly on a rising note.

Upspeak, when your sentences end on a rising note, gives whatever you say a hesitant, half-baked air.

"You don't know anything about golf?" said Darren McAlonie, the manager, with that rising note of incredulity that was beginning to get on my nerves.

"I've spent my entire life dedicated to the process of design," Mr. Tamarkin explained, a rising note of plea in his voice.

Pee-puu is composed of two elements: the introductory pee is a clear, slightly rising note, while puu, also unslurred, falls in pitch.

After several minutes of this, Fitch said, on a rising note of panic, "If they fail in the recursion one — it's not recursion; I've got to stop saying that.

Repeats with rising notes.

He ended with a series of rising notes.

The third movement of "Les Champs" ("The Fields"), also by Mr. Adès, was gripping in its pointillism, with two rising notes followed by two falling notes over wide spacings.

Still, at the start, when Mr. Harding stretched the rising notes in the violins that lead to the downbeat of the main melody, the landing was not quite coordinated.

The opening Praeludium, a graciously ornamented theme, which, as Mr. Hochman explained, simply embellishes the rising notes of the major scale, emerged in a calm, unforced pace.