How to Use modulation in a Sentence
modulation
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And for some of those who come to The Voice Lab with the goal of voice modulation, the stakes are high.
— Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019 -
This is because the changes in the shape of the mouth alter the modulation of our voices.
— Stella Marie Hombach, Scientific American, 1 June 2020 -
The last of my three gripes: The brake modulation has too much travel.
— Stuart Schwartzapfel, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2012 -
There is room for subtler modulation in the script and the staging.
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023 -
These graphs show the result: the top of the graph shows less modulation, i.e. a more difficult task.
— Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2014 -
There are so many levels of pitch modulation on all of those tracks.
— Charlie Harding, Vulture, 23 July 2021 -
Down the road at Maserati, sound modulation is more of a hybrid affair.
— Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2021 -
All that green on the right is simply slapped onto the surface, no modulation at all.
— Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021 -
What made his music special was in the cleverness of his syntax, the modulation of his voice, the depth of his grooves.
— Paul Thompson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021 -
But one of his first lessons for pupils is vocal modulation.
— Ron Lieber, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2017 -
Brake modulation is fine at the top of the pedal's travel but gets a little grabby in the last few feet before a stop.
— Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 5 May 2022 -
As the worms age, modulation of daf-2 and daf-16 then influences their health and longevity.
— Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2019 -
His screenplay connects all the dots of the story with no sense of shaping or modulation.
— Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018 -
The steering marries ideal effort levels with a strong sense of straight ahead, and the brake modulation came in for praise as well.
— Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2021 -
Through modulations in brushwork, the audience observes the artist in the act of painting.
— Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019 -
The beauty of the brushwork and the virtuoso modulation of color and surface must have something to do with it.
— Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023 -
But the studies note that the modulation is small, such that the effect is of no practical use for prediction.
— Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2018 -
So any modulation of this has to be done locally, maybe just within the bladder.
— Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021 -
Those sorts of modulations get lost when every character wears a mic, as is the case in this production.
— Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2017 -
Heat modulation proves the secret to good grilling: Use enough for flavor, perfect texture and browning, but not so much that food tastes burnt or acrid.
— Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2018 -
Greenspan is a master of height with heart: He’s never not stylized—his long fingers are never not placed just so—but his modulations are those of a dancer.
— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024 -
The more important factors are things like the spacing and proportions of spaces inside letters and the modulation of stroke weight — how thick are the thicks, how thin are the thins.
— Curbed, 20 Jan. 2023 -
Quick launches required some throttle modulation to keep the Ram from spinning its tires and burrowing into the sand on the spot.
— Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 23 Oct. 2020 -
An upward modulation meant that Reddy sang with more gusto and volume as the record progressed.
— Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2020 -
And in non-extreme use, near-perfect pedal feel makes modulation easy.
— Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Every sound on that tape is re-created in real time: each nuance, pause, breath, modulation, break, cough and cry.
— Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019 -
Again, there’s no variety, there’s no modulation of it.
— Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020 -
The standard technique is called pulse-width modulation.
— IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023 -
The low-end torque of the Lexus V-8 engines requires more progressive modulation of the throttle than expected, and only a few students in our group ever manage to come anywhere near a full donut before losing control of the car.
— Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2024 -
The Tregs showed increased levels of expression in genes related to immune system modulation and tissue healing.
— New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2024
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