Sentence examples for sort of tuning from inspiring English sources

He'd found an artifact on Mingus's dresser, a sort of tuning fork.

The bridge served Giedion and Moholy-Nagy as a sort of tuning fork for an evolving visual music of innovations whose beauty was at one with their use and significance.

I sort of tuned up myself".

Van Breda Kolff doesn't vibrate to that sort of tune.

"At some point, players sort of tune things out," General Manager George McPhee said.

Phronesis finished its late set at the Jazz Standard on Tuesday night with a dynamic précis, the sort of tune that sews up everything you need to know about the band.

It's a cool trick, and it makes you wonder what sort of tunes DeLillo might have dashed off for Bucky Wunderlick, the shattered-nerved rocker of "Great Jones Street," had the technology been available then.

A majority of the set suggested the sort of tunes Wayne Shorter wrote for the Miles Davis Quintet around 1967, after Herbie Hancock had switched to Fender Rhodes keyboard but before Davis went whole-hog electric.

It was a time when every six-year-old in the land was issued with a recorder that they could torment their parents with, hit their peers with, lose, break and, very occasionally, play some sort of "tune" on.

They've all been told to personalise, but some (Cain) do it well, giving you a plot and characters, and others don't, just namedropping somebody they know.10 26: It strikes me that the crowd just sort of tunes out when Huntsman speaks.10 25: Personal response from Huntsman, Orange!

Finishing second last week was just the right sort of tune-up.