changing tone
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The most noticeable difference for the majority of residents, however, appears to be the state’s changing tone around pandemic efforts, Shah said.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2022
Guitars and drums ricochet around in stereo, changing tone and location, while shouts and screams are tucked into the mix to heighten an air of mayhem.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2020
Pop culture isn’t just reacting to the changing tone of our democratic process.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2020
In “Eat the Apple” he offers a series of vignettes drawn from his experience, changing tone and voice with each.
From Economist • Mar. 1, 2018
And it may be imagined with what anxious eyes those letters, which made all the difference, were read; how the gradually changing tone in them was noted as it came in, slowly but also surely.
From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
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