Example Sentences

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“We were tuning the cows to the song,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

In that vacuum, normal people were tuning out altogether, because the election seemed grosser and sadder by the minute.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024

But if you were tuning in for jaw-dropping revelations, Prince Charles on Dimbleby, Prince Andrew on Newsnight, Princess Diana on Panorama this was not.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022

More than anyone else in recent literary history, he showed how a modern person, schooled in skepticism, pursued by appropriate doubts, could find the frequency of grace, as if he were tuning an old radio.

From Washington Post • Aug. 22, 2022

Presently her half-vision began to show her the pale forms that Mary was seeing in her dreams, and she adjusted her mind to resonate with them, as if she were tuning a string.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman