tenor
Example Sentences
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At the Tuesday night gala, the president’s favorite tenor, Christopher Macchio, serenaded business executives.
His phrasing calls to mind the way an early hero of his, Lester Young, used to “sing” a song’s lyrics through his tenor saxophone.
Such was the tenor of the movie releases of the early 1940s.
The money investors added to “short- and intermediate-term government bond ETFs indicates that investors are eschewing longer-term tenors in favor of the belly of the curve,” wrote Bartolini.
From MarketWatch
The emotional tenor of the viral post is striking.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
