TONE in a Sentence

Learn TONE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

265 example sentences for TONE, such as:

1. Her tone of voice was curt.
2. Her voice has a pleasant tone.
3. I cannot bear the tone he adopts.
4. Don't speak to me in that tone of voice.
5. There was a tone of mockery in his voice.

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 Meanings and Examples of TONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tone
 n.  sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Probably the reader will have noticed that, for all his expressions of solicitude, Chichikov's tone towards his hostess partook of a freer, a more unceremonious, nature than that which he had adopted towards Madam Manilov.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
2  "Fairly well," replied Chichikov, but with a touch of dryness in his tone.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  He spoke without the least surprise in his tone, and much as though the conversation had been turning on grain.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  Then he added aloud, with irritation in his tone: "See here."
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
5  The guest's tone was almost piteous in its appeal.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
6  "You seem to get great store upon views and beauty," remarked Kostanzhoglo with reproof in his tone.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
7  I cannot bear the tone he adopts.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  Chichikov adopted a firmer and more decided tone.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
9  At the same time, it is for a subordinate to adapt himself to the tone of his superior, rather than for a superior to adapt himself to the tone of his subordinate.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
10  This surgeon's son was not only not overawed, he even gave abrupt and indifferent answers, and in the tone of his voice there was something churlish, almost insolent.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  'Classical,' Arkady answered in the same tone of voice.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  'We had better go to sleep,' said Arkady, in a tone of vexation.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  He was evidently uncomfortable at these reminiscences, and was, I fancy, always afraid that I might take up the same tone again.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: II
14  During his last year at school he came in for an estate of two hundred serfs, and as almost all of us were poor he took up a swaggering tone among us.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
15  "Not all married women are happy," she snapped out in the rude abrupt tone she had used at first.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
Example Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
16  "And when I grow up, I'll write one -- but I'm grown up now," she added in a sorrowful tone; "at least there's no room to grow up any more HERE."
17  Miss Ingram rose solemnly: "I go first," she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of his men.
18  She added in a sorrowful tone; "at least there's no room to grow up any more HERE."
19  "Well, perhaps not," said Alice in a soothing tone:
20  "A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt.
21  Agreeing with Samantha would indicate that one is inclined to be for increasing American military aggressiveness, which is not the tone from today's left side.
22  A harmonic tone consists of a sum of pure tones.
23  We have had to ask the agency and their client to tone their ads down.
24  This treatment helps tone the body, firm up muscles and tighten the skin.
25  Her voice has a pleasant tone.
26  There was a tone of mockery in his voice.
27  Don't speak to me in that tone of voice.
28  Her tone of voice was curt.
29  Her enthusiastic speech set the tone for the day's conference.
30  His peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody.