19 examples of overtone in sentences

This freight-car talk is pitched just above the ordinary toneit is an overtone of conversation, one might sayand it is distinctly nasal.

The other events of the funeral flowed by in a sort of dream: he moved about; the negroes were speaking to him in the queer overtones one uses to the bereaved; he was being driven back to Niggertown; he reentered the Siner cabin.

Peter still tried to be casual, but his voice held new overtones.

" Overtones of shock, even of horror, in the two voices brought Peter wide awake the moment he opened his eyes.

[physical resonance] sympathetic vibrations; natural frequency, coupled vibration frequency; overtone; resonating cavity; sounding board, tuning fork.

Even in the plant there may be a faint manasic overtone, for the potentiality of life and mind is in everything.

His daughter and his wife have only to die when they please; provided the bells of the parish which toll for them continue to sound the 12th and the 17th overtones, all will be well.

That overtone of the mountains troubled and frightened Alcatraz on his first night; eventually he was to come to love it.

But farther on comes a dull, low murmuring, scarcely to be heard at first, so nicely does it fit this gentle monotone of silence, yet soon filling the trembling air with overtones that rise and fall and swell again in varying chords.

It appears, moreover, to be impossible to overtone the citro-chloro emulsion paper with it in the sense that it is possible to overtone prints on albumenized paper with the ordinary alkaline bath.

It appears, moreover, to be impossible to overtone the citro-chloro emulsion paper with it in the sense that it is possible to overtone prints on albumenized paper with the ordinary alkaline bath.

The women continually uttered a kind of long- drawn wailing or droning; I am not enough of a musician to say whether it was an overtone or the sustaining of the burden of the ballad.

The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music and the hissing consonants in speech.

Overtones, all of thembut what a range!

When one of Goethe's characters says: "My life began at the moment I fell in love with you;" or when one of Lessing's characters exclaims: "To live apart from her is inconceivable to me, would be my death"we still hear the note of selfishness, but with harmonic overtones that change its quality, the result of a change in the way of regarding women.

"Mir ... i ... am," he repeated, looking in the center of the eyes without flinching, and becoming instantly aware that his utterance of the name produced in himself a development and extension of the original overtones awakened by her speaking of his own name.

There seemed a curious mingling in the resonant cavity of his great mouth of the fundamental note and the overtones.

"We shall yet call upon the Names, and see," replied Skale, placing a great hand upon his companion's shoulder, "not aloud necessarily, but by an inner effort of intense will which sets in vibration the finer harmonics heard only by the poet and magician, those harmonics and overtones which embody the psychical element in music.

With it, too, like a faint overtone, came the yet gentler music of another voice.

19 examples of  overtone  in sentences