How to Use intonation in a Sentence

intonation

noun

• Sharpe fixed the intonation, filed down some the frets on the neck and tightened up input jack.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 6 Feb. 2023
• How an actor gives an intonation on a pronoun can change the whole tone of the scene.
  — Brian Porreca, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2017
• That can come from the intonation of the speakers, the rhythm of their speech, or how people react.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
• De Niro’s lines, so De Niro could hear the intonation, not to feign a Southern dialect, but to sound close enough.
  — Tim Chitwood, ajc, 22 May 2021
• A study found that different parts of a dog’s brain process intonation and the meaning of words spoken to them.
  — Michael Roston, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2016
• The verdict from the rest of Wales on Downey's intonation will come after the film's worldwide release this weekend.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2020
• The brass encountered a bit of raggedness, the woodwinds a touch of sour intonation, but things got tighter quickly.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2018
• The notes began springing out with a glib, dead intonation.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• Emilio chimes in, his accent still rich with the rhythmic intonation of Cuba.
  — Brooke Mazurek, Variety, 5 Apr. 2022
• For people, both the word and intonation are important, but no one knew—until now—whether that was also the case for dogs.
  — Enikő Kubinyi, National Geographic, 31 Aug. 2016
• Once Shawn Mendes came in and recorded his singing sessions, the animators could draw from that and reflect the intonation of his voice in Lyle’s face.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Oct. 2022
• The adagio begins with muted warmth in the strings, which Reinhardt used to highlight the winds’ unity of timbre and intonation.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2022
• Double-stops proved a stumbling block for Woods, in the sonata’s first movement and throughout the recital, often turning sour in intonation.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• Taking into account tone, speed and intonation, a 2008 British study found that the actor Jeremy Irons has close to the ideal voice.
  — Eben Shapiro, Time, 14 May 2018
• Think of tone, intonation and gestures, which can all serve to amplify the impact of your pitch and make the pitch resonate more deeply with your audience.
  — Yec, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Then call the crew and cast, then start rehearsal, then consult on moving, accent, or intonation.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
• The intonation that remains on Deutsch’s sometimes behave so strangely doesn’t sound like that of a full sentence.
  — Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
• In addition to the perfect intonation, Schwartz connects the dots, finds the story behind the story.
  — Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 25 May 2017
• While the audience in the video laughs at the AI's uncanny speech intonations and use of filler words, the demonstration has also raised concerns.
  — Jason Lemon, ajc, 11 May 2018
• Speech synthesis to us is not just the words themselves, but the nuance of creating the full richness of voice, like intonation and rhythm, in real time.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• As with people’s brains, parts of dogs’ left hemisphere react to meaning and parts of the right hemisphere to intonation — the emotional content of a sound.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2016
• The researchers looked at factors such as intonation, speech rate, pausing, volume and pitch.
  — Karinna Hurley, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2020
• And there are lots of languages with features not found in English, such as the clicks of some African languages or the centrality of intonation in Mandarin.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2024
• The director, whose voice was being piped into Klein’s headphones from the control booth, told her to do it again, this time keeping her intonation steady and even.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The tenors and basses were compelling here, the intonation of each group solid throughout their registers.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• If you’re used to the subtle eye contact of Succession or the tiny changes in intonation on Veep, you’ll be surprised by how many actual punchlines are here.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2022
• These include the use of a high pitch, exaggerated intonation and a soft voice – traits that just so happen to overlap with the way most people talk to babies.
  — Ramesh Kaipa, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2021
• This rapid decline suggests that intonation is processed in the more ancient dog brain regions.
  — Virginia Morell, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2020
• To smooth jumpy transitions, the program attempts to offer a few different versions of the word to best match intonation and phrasing.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2017
• Their characters are younger, more capable female clones of their dads, and these actors nail the intonation and demeanor of young Winter and Reeves.
  — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024