timbre

Example Sentences

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To start with the familiar: The example I drove at the media event near San Diego last week felt impressively solid and soundly made, with door slams resonating with Honda’s trademark timbre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

"We have that same timbre but I've had to work on the way he speaks."

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2025

Recorded in large part during the band’s sojourn to New Orleans, the record positively brims with energy and musical timbre.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2025

Wilkins, who lends Barack Obama a smoky timbre as seductive as the patented sounds of Teddy Pendergrass and Marvin Gaye.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025

Recognizing a sound’s timbre is significant to humans in that it helps us to distinguish the source of the sound, i.e. who is calling us—our parents, friends, etc.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin