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    Use "undertone" in a sentence

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    undertone


    1. In an undertone, Jones divulged that the visitor had been on the phone since arriving, apparently talking about some business deal or other


    2. in the air and all conversation contained an undertone of


    3. ‘UNimportant, of course, I meant,’ the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, ‘important–unimportant– unimportant–important–’ as if he were trying which word sounded best


    4. The room was clean, but airless, and it smelled of Lysol with an undertone of fear and hopelessness


    5. 'Unimportant, of course, I meant,' the King hastily said, and went on to himself in an undertone, 'important--unimportant-- unimportant--important--' as if he were trying which word sounded best


    6. I found Oztooa in his stall and told him in an undertone that I had been able to befriend my cousins and the Khan suspected nothing


    7. ” said one man in an undertone to Bob


    8. "Are you guys ready to ride the roller coaster again?" His voice immediately took on a patronizing undertone that generated resentment in the girls from his sly pressure


    9. Their overly hospitable personas didn't reflect the bleak undertone that catered their thoughts


    10. held an undertone of deviousness

    11. They sounded such mundane things, but we knew there was a terrible undertone to their actions


    12. ‘Don’t hesitate to feel at home,’ she said in undertone as Sandhya went in to have some water


    13. ‘I hear there’s money to make over there,’ said Prasad in undertone


    14. ‘If only you promise,’ she said to him in undertone, ‘that you would have both Sandhya and me together


    15. ‘Can’t you see, doctor saheb,’ Subba Reddy said in undertone, before Raja Rao could reply, ‘with two pretty directors on the board, how could it be otherwise for our romantic architect


    16. ‘You know that I look life straight in its face,’ said Tara in undertone to Roopa


    17. Having been deposited by her brothers in a chair beside Joel, Kathy leaned over and in an undertone, whispered her apologies to him


    18. I was a little confused by the undertone her words held


    19. So I went over to one of the blue-shirted store employees and made my request in an undertone as Aunt Rachel turned away to inspect a display of laptop bags, then added a fun weather station you operated with your iPhone to my order


    20. "We've got to be careful," one of them remarked in a scarcely audible undertone

    21. "Sit on my immediate left," he instructs in an undertone, before jovially greeting Lord Wesley


    22. And in spite of this lack of warmth there was a soft undertone, kind of a confidential undertone, as if there were no barriers between them


    23. The bitterest one wasn’t as bitter as last time, because an undertone was missing, but on the other hand it wouldn’t dissolve as easily either


    24. "This isn't forensic medicine at all!" There was an admiring and deadly menacing undertone in his voice


    25. The double-exhaust of the Mustang was bubbling with a thunderous undertone


    26. and the constant hum of pleased suckers, with an undertone


    27. Beneath the Computer Centre audit report was an undertone he wasn't comfortable with, however


    28. The hairless body of the bodybuilder offsets this intimidating undertone


    29. than what it was, it had a strong neon pink undertone


    30. Her hair was white with a lilac undertone

    31. The odor of charred flesh, already powerful in the narrow space, became nearly overwhelming, with an undertone of something even more fetid


    32. I charged after the column as a grim undertone overwhelmed the day


    33. ” He was trying to sound hopeful, but there was a nervous undertone to his voice


    34. I'm coming," he muttered in an undertone, as though not fully conscious of what he was saying, and he went out of the room


    35. And, certain of his discovery, he went out repeating to himself in an undertone, and with his usual low whistle—


    36. "It seems to me," said Franz, speaking in an undertone to Albert, "that if this person merited the high panegyrics of our landlord, he would have conveyed his invitation through another channel, and not permitted it to be brought to us in this unceremonious way


    37. The woman's lips seemed to move, as though she were talking; but because she merely spoke in an undertone, or my senses were dulled by sleep, I did not catch a word she uttered


    38. " At this instant the favorite attendant of Madame Danglars entered the boudoir; approaching her mistress, she spoke some words in an undertone


    39. repeat in an undertone the story he had just told to Gabriel


    40. Malins could be heard saying to her neighbour in an indistinct undertone:

    41. With his mailed gauntlet he brushed away a furtive tear and was overheard, by those privileged burghers who happened to be in his immediate entourage, to murmur to himself in a faltering undertone:


    42. "What are you saying to her?" said Morcerf in an undertone


    43. Two persons passed near me—allow me to conceal their names for the present; they were speaking in an undertone, and yet I was so interested in what they said that I did not lose a single word


    44. Now she caught the low undertone, as of the wind sinking down to repose itself; then ascended with it, as it rose through progressive gradations of sweetness and power, until its volume seemed to envelop her with an atmosphere of awe and solemn grandeur


    45. What was it? The complaint of a human heart, sorrow-laden, perchance guilty, telling its secret, whether of guilt or sorrow, to the great heart of mankind; beseeching its sympathy or forgiveness,—at every moment,—in each accent,—and never in vain! It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power


    46. But, throughout it all, and through the whole discourse, there had been a certain deep, sad undertone of pathos, which could not be interpreted otherwise than as the natural regret of one soon to pass away


    47. Petranilla clamped her mouth shut, recognizing the undertone in his low voice; but Alice did not notice how


    48. picked up the undertone of mockery, and his eyes flashed anger


    49. Ralph spoke to the judge in an undertone


    50. Charles Gould had his place next to a foreign envoy, who, in a listless undertone, had been talking to him fitfully of hunting and shooting























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    Synonyms for "undertone"

    tinge undertone undercurrent mumble rumour murmur whisper

    "undertone" definitions

    a quiet or hushed tone of voice


    a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning


    a pale or subdued color