Example Sentences

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James and Latif make an appealing, soulful twosome, infusing their nicely dimensional, well-modulated characters with low-key charm and credible longing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2023

Let’s start with the good: For most of its 82 minutes, Game of Thrones’ “The Long Night” was a tense, well-modulated, and gorgeously scored poem to apocalyptic terror.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2019

In those well-modulated sentences, Swift washes individuals and their pain away.

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

When asked a question, he considers it before answering in articulate, well-modulated sentences, often prefaced with “I think,” or “perhaps.”

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2017

“Tell my wife," he answered in a well-modulated voice, “to give the girl the name of Úrsula."

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez