Example Sentences

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Birds squawked in weird intonations, a few stars dotted a purplish sky, and the temperature felt like it dropped several degrees.

From National Geographic • Jan. 4, 2024

It's now possible for AI to take three seconds of human speech and then hold forth at length with its same patterns and intonations in an exact mimicry.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2023

The 19-year-old Brooklyn drill artist known as Pop Smoke took the sonic template from Chief Keef nearly a decade earlier, but added his own deep, husky intonations for a one-of-a-kind spin on the sound.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

It has Rosario intonations, it's something someone's grandmother might say.

From BBC • May 29, 2023

Laila marveled at her daughter’s manner of speech, her cadence and rhythm, her thoughtful pauses and intonations, so adult, so at odds with the immature body that housed the voice.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini