How to Use tenor in a Sentence

tenor

noun
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  • She asked the tenors to sing the line again.
  • The tenor of his remarks is clear.
  • He has a high, lilting tenor.
  • The council’s breakfast ahead of the vote set the tenor for the debate.
    — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
  • That sentence may seem to capture the tenor of the times.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Louis gives in and sees images of the tenor's past as the man's life drains away.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Without a crucial swing vote to be won over, the tenor of the Court has changed.
    — Michael Waldman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But Tatum sensed that the game’s tenor was beginning to shift.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The whole tenor and tone of the campaign was much more calm and moderate.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Two books, both by English tenors and both on the nature of song.
    — Eric Felten, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
  • That should be a cue to change the tenor of his candidacy.
    — Richard Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024
  • And the tenor of the conversations isn’t going to know what hit it.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Then again, in a town of this size and tenor, everyone is a prime suspect.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
  • His voice is hoarse with age but still has a tenor’s vibrancy.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Sissoko changed the tenor of the game with his tiebreaking alley-oop slam with 1:45 left in the second OT.
    — Michael Marot, ajc, 16 Nov. 2022
  • While the tenor Joseph Dennis is affable in the role, his chemistry with D’Angelo is nil.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • As a rising young tenor in the 1990s, Limmie Pulliam dreamed of a career that would take him to the world’s top stages.
    — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The tenor of his speeches would harmonize with the public mood.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 July 2023
  • Parts of the lineup could find grooves and alter the tenor and trajectory of things.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • This doesn’t fit the tenor of good faith or relationships.
    — Roy S. Johnson | Rjohnson@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The tenor of the two-hour argument suggested the court will rule for the pork producers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Much of the work of making the film took place during the pandemic, and that impacted its tenor.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The early tenor of this game included the fact that Utah’s defense was a mess, just like the first meeting on Oct. 15.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
  • As 2022 fades out, the amazing shift in market tenor from high to low is evident.
    — John Walkup, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • An iconic Italian tenor is bringing his U.S. tour to Louisville toward the end of 2023.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2023
  • That’s just the beginning: Here are five minutes to fall in love with tenors, the flute, the trumpet, Brahms, string quartets and so much more.
    — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But, in a downturn, the wheeling and dealing just has a different tenor.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The tenor saxophonist, then 21 years old, had already recorded with the likes of Miles Davis.
    — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The tenor bell tolling once a minute for 96 minutes, to mark each year of the queen’s life, is Westminster Abbey’s largest — and heaviest — bell.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The tenor of the game changed in the seventh – and with some rare lucky breaks for the Brewers, who were trailing 5-3 and were down 4-0 heading into the bottom of the second.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2023

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