tonally
- a word derived from tonal.
Example Sentences
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The Worst of You star is hoping her fans are now "ready for an album like Florescence", but says they should brace for it to feel "tonally and sonically very different".
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The legal case is only getting going, she says, yet an “impatient” Court has produced “a terse, tonally dismissive ruling designed to conclusively resolve the dispute.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
So we get town halls with Erika Kirk, helicopter flights over Dallas with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and another platform for rapid response that’s tonally indistinguishable from the degraded discourse it ostensibly opposes.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
The edges and angles have been sanded down and polished; tonally, it resembles “Northern Exposure” more than the show it’s adapting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
And when she sang fortissimo all the Strauss horses and all the Strauss men were as supine, tonally speaking, as Humpty Dumpty.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James
