How To Use untune In A Sentence
- Drunken college students strum untuned strings and shout incoherent lyrics into flames of illegal campfires. Johnny Mercer's Pier
- Nor good neither, answered Dominie Sampson, in a voice whose untuneable harshness corresponded with the awkwardness of his figure. Chapter III
- The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
- Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned. Watching Pablo Sleep
- In "Music for Midsummer's Eve," time is an "untuned harmonium/That Muzaks our nights and days. Archive 2009-04-01
- Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable. As You Like It
- I was astonished to find it actually contained a load of Germans singing untunefully and then a strangely familiar man shouting ‘Heil!’
- I think that the Star-Spangled Banner is untuneful, nearly unsingable, and usually played too slowly, so it loses what little character it had to begin with.
- There is a sense, therefore, in which we must declare the principles to be two, and a sense in which they are three; a sense in which the contraries are the principles-say for example the musical and the unmusical, the hot and the cold, the tuned and the untuned-and a sense in which they are not, since it is impossible for the contraries to be acted on by each other. Physics
- Nowhere are there particular untuneful or heavy sounds, though now and then the music comes with vehemence.