Sentence examples for tone like a from inspiring English sources

Or a low, uncertain tone, like a question.

The piece began in blackness, the music setting a haunting tone, like a mystery film.

Brazenly obtuse, the commercial was, in tone, like a poster for Sleepy's mattresses appropriating the "I Have a Dream" speech.

Essentially, the first oscillator generates a pure tone that modulates the frequency of the second oscillator in a way that produces a complex tone, like a string vibrating.

Petite Noir wants his own guitar range ("black and gold with a round tone like a Telecaster").

The curators and scholars are generally heard speaking with an echoey tone – like a priest's address in church.

When the breeze shook the branches of the chestnut trees, we looked at the sky and said, in a worried tone, like sailors, "It'll be stormy there".

It produces great effects with delicate shifts in tone, like an ocean­going bird that travels a hundred miles between wing flaps.

And there's another on "Strung Like Lights at Thee Printemps Érable," one of the shorter tracks, where a feedback tone like an ice burn, bolstered by a low-end rumble, suddenly disappears at 4 32, leaving behind weird, echoey, warped-sounding loops.

Because reclaimed wood is more expensive than new, some designers use it selectively, so it can set a tone, like coupling a vintage Chanel bag with a department-store suit.

A similar lateralization shift from right to left, measured by EEG, has been found earlier for a stimulus continuum ranging from a strongly filtered tone-like sound to a phonetic sound (vowel; Rinne et al. 1999).