TENOR in a Sentence

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For TENOR, below is one of 29 sentences:
I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor, whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.

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 Meanings and Examples of TENOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tenor
 n.  general, usual, or prevailing course or direction; settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
Classic Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  She knew that the first tenor would not like to come on after Mr. Meade's comic turn.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
2  The bass and the second tenor had already come.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
3  Mr. Bell, the second tenor, was a fair-haired little man who competed every year for prizes at the Feis Ceoil.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
4  The first tenor and the baritone arrived together.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
5  The first tenor and the baritone and Miss Healy stood together, waiting tranquilly, but Mr. Bell's nerves were greatly agitated because he was afraid the audience would think that he had come late.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
6  The first tenor bent his head and began to count the links of the gold chain which was extended across his waist, smiling and humming random notes to observe the effect on the frontal sinus.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
7  The first tenor and the contralto, however, brought down the house.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
8  Mr. M'Coy had been at one time a tenor of some reputation.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
9  But I've a nice partner for you, Mr. Bartell D'Arcy, the tenor.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
10  Mr. Bartell D'Arcy, the tenor, a dark-complexioned young man with a smart moustache, praised very highly the leading contralto of the company but Miss Furlong thought she had a rather vulgar style of production.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
11  Freddy Malins said there was a Negro chieftain singing in the second part of the Gaiety pantomime who had one of the finest tenor voices he had ever heard.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
12  For me," said Aunt Kate, who had been picking a bone, "there was only one tenor.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
13  "A beautiful, pure, sweet, mellow English tenor," said Aunt Kate with enthusiasm.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
14  It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  The daily details of Mrs. Hatch's existence were as strange to Lily as its general tenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  An exuberant player with attractive tones on both tenor and alto, Red Holloway is also a humorous blues singer.
2  When the popular tenor Placido Domingo came on stage, he was greeted by a tremendous ovation.
3  Its general tenor is to take more power away from the local boroughs and concentrate them in the hands of the Mayor.
4  I had hoped for a little more from the world's greatest tenor, whose performance was workmanlike but hardly inspired.
5  We persuaded Jake to sing tenor.