How to Use perfect pitch in a Sentence

perfect pitch

noun
  • The blue of the bathyal zone bleeds into the black of the abyssal, the light winks out to perfect pitch, and the dark goes on and on, for eight monotonous hours.
    Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
  • Apply each of these concepts for the perfect pitch . . .
    William Arruda, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • Songland is pulling back the curtain on the process of how a song gets taken from a rough idea to the top of the charts, perfect pitch not required!
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 June 2019
  • Users don't need to have perfect pitch in order to get the feature to work, according to Google.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Platt wasn't the only actor who Murphy wooed with a perfect pitch.
    Mike Cidoni Lennox, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • For five hours Jaiden Griffith was looking for that perfect pitch.
    Steve Gorches, Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2022
  • Noah, then 13, was already earning praise for his perfect pitch.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In a perfect pitch, the audience gets carried along, almost sensing the next thought.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The second was supposed to free him to cut loose rather than nibble around the plate in often-maddening attempts to throw the perfect pitch.
    Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2018
  • White Sox catcher Lucas Giolito was behind the plate to catch her perfect pitch.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
  • The vocalist singing the mournful, gorgeous Portuguese music with perfect pitch is stunning in a black silk dress, her dark hair piled high on top of her head.
    Jill Gleeson, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2018
  • His perfect pitch and memorization skills are a big assist in playing the piano, which has largely been self-taught.
    NBC News, 5 June 2019
  • The 10-year-old wowed with a beautiful cover of Symphony by Clean Bandit, singing with perfect pitch and hitting an insanely high note near the end of the song.
    Brooke Metz, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Just take a brief survey and a quick pitch-naming test to help determine if perfect pitch differs for different timbres.
    Citizen Science Salon, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2015
  • Either way, the Hawkeyes played the new national signing day with perfect pitch and flawless execution.
    Scott Dochterman, ajc, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Puth -- who is prepping for his North American tour, which starts July 11 in Toronto -- lent his perfect pitch and keyboard expertise to the performance.
    Heran Mamo, Billboard, 6 July 2018
  • Earlier on Friday, Lizzo teased her appearance at the festival on TikTok by putting her own twist on the app’s latest meme of a girl hitting her hip on the side of a bed and screaming in pain (and perfect pitch).
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 23 Apr. 2022
  • John le Carré, the acknowledged sage of espionage fiction, had the literary equivalent of perfect pitch.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • As brands and leagues and individuals aim for the perfect pitch, some get too caught up in chasing social-media clout without really saying anything.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 June 2020
  • The presentation will cover an introduction to booking NYC venues, crafting the perfect pitch email and how to put together an electronic press kit.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 23 May 2022
  • The crowd did not care about perfect pitch either: fans roared and shrieked during the two hour performance, singing out loud every single word of the repertoire that centered mostly on 2021’s critical and commercial success El Madrileño.
    Nuria Net, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Ruscha tends to see meaningful shapes, figures, and faces in random, seemingly ho-hum places—a visual hyperacuity that is the artist’s equivalent of a musician’s perfect pitch.
    Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
  • His mother, an aspiring opera singer, channeled her musical ambitions into her son, who had perfect pitch.
    Tim Greiving, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2020
  • Most accelerators—ours included—culminate in an investor showcase, a closed-door, invite-only event where startups present their perfect pitch to a large group of vetted investors.
    Leslie Feinzaig, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Some people have a photographic memory; others have perfect pitch.
    Kenneth Goetz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2023
  • The Russians involved in election meddling executed it with almost perfect pitch - learning to mimic the way Americans talk politics online.
    Craig Timberg, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Alexander is what’s know as an autistic savant, with perfect pitch, a near-photographic memory for music and a surprising facility with the saxophone and piano.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The Rapsodo machine is a vital tool for major league teams, tracking velocity, spin rate, spin axis and many other minuscule yet vital variables in curating a perfect pitch.
    Tom Hindle, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2020
  • There was a study from Vanderbilt University that Eli took part in, trying to determine if there actually was a higher tendency for people with Williams to have perfect pitch or be musical savants.
    National Geographic, 16 July 2017
  • Stephen Hedger, a graduate student at the University of Chicago who's studying both cognitive psychology and musicology, has perfect pitch.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2013

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