undertones
Example Sentences
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European dance music rhythms collide with contemporary hip-hop deliveries and progressive metal bass undertones as if they were always meant to coalesce.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Stagflationary undertones were present in the ISM services print, however, Fjaerstedt said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
"It has a lot of threads around grief, as the boys lose their mum, and so there are some really serious undertones to it," Michelle says.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025
It’s an epic tale with Christian undertones about a magical world and the four siblings who discover and rule it as kings and queens.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
Heard the subtle undertones of what everybody was saying back then, even though nobody else was in the lobby with me this time.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
