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How to use undertone in a sentence

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For all that written correspondence can manage, a subtle undertone and feeling is probably the hardest to achieve.
He didn't exactly looked panicked, but his voice was dark with rage and an undertone of fear.
Using a tag team of interviewers on camera in this way produces an undertone of comedy.
Fear becomes for her parents the permanent and muffled undertone of their life.
It helps that this rock musical has a serious undertone beneath the uproariousness.
There are beautifully fried morsels of goat cheese, too, in a vibrant, tomatoey sofrito sauce that has an earthy red-chile undertone.
Cell twenty-one was around one corner of a dark, narrow corridor that smelt of disinfectant with an undertone of urine and vomit.
Light to medium shades of brunette would do well with mauve pinks or pinks that have a dusty or brown undertone.
Her otherworldly dreamscapes are lush and gorgeous, with a dark, dangerous undertone.
In a white wine I really want dryness and with the Italian there is always an undertone of sweetness.
It sounds like a primarily comic conceit, and an undertone of drollery does indeed resonate delicately throughout.
In its grapey bouquet one can detect a faint muscat-like undertone while the easy-drinking palate is fresh and medium dry.
The cheese was soft and milkily sweet, with a nice, oniony undertone from the chives.
It takes on a sinister undertone in the incapable vocals of a bladdered bunch of footy fans.
Some shades have yellow or brown specks in them, others have an undertone of blue or purple or even black.
However much I tried to be funny and nice, I didn't try to hide the undertone of serious disappointment.
Tessa's tone was cool and aloof, but Rogers could sense the apprehensive undertone.
A wonderful mousse of tiny bubbles and a delicious appley nose are complemented by a fine undertone of honey.
There's an undertone of condescension, winking to let you know that, after all, everyone in this film is just white trash.
There was a brief pause before another question was barked with a peculiar undertone to it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But there was in that exclamation an undertone of disbelief clear enough to untrusting ears.
He modulated his belligerent shout to a dulcet undertone as we came alongside.
A low wail of inappeasable sorrow, an undertone of dirges, mingles with his gay melodies.
She does not break the thread of a conversation by irrelevant questions or confabulate in an undertone with the servants.
Yet the thought of her had persisted as a plaintive undertone through all the days after.
An undertone of pathos has been my part in all these years to symmetrize the love of Herman and Eloise.
They had been speaking in an undertone, standing together at a window, apart from the rest.
All this was muttered in an undertone, not intended for the ear of the railway official.
Radley turned round and, having seen me, said something in an undertone to chappy.
His voice lifted one notch higher than the undertone which welled about him.
Daoud heard a faint undertone of contempt in the Kurd's voice.
I heard a whispered greeting and an undertone of conversation.
Lord Galloway had edged up to his daughter, and was intimidating her in what he imagined to be an undertone.
A chattering and hurrying of people could be heard as an undertone.
Then, knowing Nani's history, he related it in an undertone.
He rose rigidly from his chair, leaving all the rest sitting, screwed his eyeglass into his eye, and spoke in a raucous undertone as if he had half-forgotten how to speak.
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