overtone

How To Use overtone In A Sentence

• Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively.
• And when I see how many people are being sucked into gold investments from all those cheesy radio and TV ads (with their overt or sometimes explicit survivalist overtones), I see another bubble being blown that at some sad point will go blooey. Fox Business News, Where Green Arrows Turn Brown Eyes Blue: James Wolcott
• Our first reaction is enthralled delight, but then ominous overtones register.
• To suggest - as some critics have - that the memoir owes its power to "Proustian" overtones is ridiculous. Books, Inq. — The Epilogue
• The organization's cultural activities took on political overtones.
• The title nags at me the same way Google does – moral and righteous overtones applied to a company that seems to me to be remarkably amoral I’m not not saying immoral. WWJeffD? « BuzzMachine
• Less than a year before the convention, it is hard not to find political overtones in virtually everything the president says and does.
• The hunt has strong religious overtones, and it can only succeed if harmony and peace prevail.
• This allows either the crystal's fundamental frequency or its third overtone to be selected.
• It's a movie with very strong spiritual undertones and overtones.