intonation

Example Sentences

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With one long, deep intonation, the man has stopped all time around them – freezing the water in place – a demonstration of unfathomable power.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2025

But the result was thin, devoid of intonation or personality, and it had an American lilt.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

And then when I was singing, he took me through every intonation of how he heard it.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

Melodic intonation therapy, for instance, is a promising approach to train people with aphasia to sing what they want to say, using their intact "musical mechanisms" to bypass damaged speech mechanisms.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

What’s left after content-filtering is a kind of garble that preserves intonation, pitch, and rhythm but erases content.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell