modulate
verb (used with object)
to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.
had modulated
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past perfectof modulate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The signals had modulated and muddied one another, much as a guitar amplifier modulates and distorts a guitar note, which is what made it so difficult to identify BLC1 as interference.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2021
Sanders had also shown an uncanny ability to adopt the voice of the person she was representing: Boozman was gentlemanly and never ranted, and so she had modulated her tone in public appearances.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
It was the melodious eloquence of sacred sorrow, which renewed spontaneously, in the profundity of her being, this hereditary rhythm in which the mothers of bygone ages had modulated their lamentations.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Those who heard him frequently could hardly detect the fact that he had modulated into a distant key, so smooth were his transitions.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Alcman had modulated the tones of his voice into a sweetness so plaintive and touching, that, when he paused, the hand-maidens had involuntarily risen and gathered round, hushed and noiseless.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
