overtonein a sentence
overtone as in: a menacing overtone
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The speech carried political overtones that made some listeners uneasy.overtones = suggested meaning (though not stated)
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They are white pearls with a blue overtone.overtone = hints
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I heard overtones of despair.
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The tyrannosaur roared again, but this time it had distinct musical overtones, and a kind of echo, persisting afterward. (source)overtones = a subtle or secondary quality
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Open crates, and overtones of urine.† (source)
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In France and Italy, the words for "left"—gauche and sinistra—came to have deeply negative overtones, while their right-hand counterparts rang of righteousness, dexterity, and correctness.† (source)
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Then applause filled the hall again, some of it not without satiric overtones.† (source)
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He had discerned a clear overtone of tragedy in the crier's voice, and even now he could still hear it as it grew dimmer and dimmer in the distance.† (source)
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This was a dramatic shift in the meaning of an age-old expression with warlike overtones.† (source)
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An element of indifference is the ultimate overtone.† (source)
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And beneath that there was a hint of lilt that brought back the overtones of a cat burglar i'd known who had grown up on Asquith, a quiet, backwater Web world settled by First Expansion immigrants from what had once been the British Isles.† (source)
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I even pitched my voice to a low plane, trying to rob it of any suggestion or overtone of aggressiveness.† (source)
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It was the smell of flowers with overtones of gardenia and jasmine, unmistakably his mother's perfume that he kept hidden away in his little tin box.† (source)
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Quentin did not answer him, did not pause, his voice level, curious, a little dreamy yet still with that overtone of sullen bemusement, of smoldering outrage: so that Shreve, still too, resembling in his spectacles and nothing else (from the waist down the table concealed him; anyone entering the room would have taken him to be stark naked) a baroque effigy created out of colored cake dough by someone with a faintly nightmarish affinity for the perverse, watched him with thoughtful and intent curiosity.)† (source)
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I'm told it means 'well-dipper,' a meaning with rather important overtones here.† (source)
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The words of Krsna, the world savior, to the wives of the dead Kans carry a frightening overtone; so do the words of Jesus: "I came not to send peace, but a sword.† (source)
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