Verb (used without object) : Enjoyed modulating with you. ,to modulate abruptly from A to B flat. From Dictionary.com.
So the Minister chanted in modulated song these couplets. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
His latest exercise in modulated hedonism may not have much to say on the politics of happiness, but sometimes that can be a blessing. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: SFBG. SFIFF.] Reference
Try speaking in a room with a 20Hz wave and your voice will be modulated which is audiable. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brown note? I have never heard of this.] Reference
That's just her voice being distorted and modulated. From Wordnik.com. [The Best CDs You Didn't Hear This Year] Reference
Elise said, in a modulated charity lady with money voice. From Wordnik.com. [Lillia] Reference
"Ha ha ha," Bob laughed politely in a well-modulated tone. From Wordnik.com. [My Drifter Doppelganger] Reference
Miss Leece mingling with the principal's cool, well-modulated tones. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
And with her voice modulated to a soft and singing complaint she said. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Memorial and her arguments to support it, in a clear well-modulated voice. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
"Have you grown cruel, Teddy?" goes on Molly, in a carefully modulated tone. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
It was so nicely modulated and full of observation about class and furniture. From Wordnik.com. [Luminous Novel From Dark Master] Reference
In this modern media age he has modulated his public image and his public rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Can Lula Save Brazil?] Reference
"Good thing I've got my body shield modulated for full refraction," he told himself. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
As the color guard stood at attention, the band modulated into the "Song of the Talu.". From Wordnik.com. [The Best Made Plans] Reference
In McCaw Hall, there was some evidence that Kerry's modulated sales effort might succeed. From Wordnik.com. [THE 'SOCK PUPPET' STRATEGY] Reference
She stopped but the noise seemed to have no effect upon the evenly modulated tones inside. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
"I go to an audience with Her Majesty, gentlemen," he said in a grave, well-modulated voice. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Twister] Reference
A strain of Irish paganism, reaching back to ancient traditions, modulated their Catholicism. From Wordnik.com. [Atonement] Reference
Her voice was grave, careless, yet modulated with an extreme care as if she spoke to a child. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
It is doubtful if that listening sleeper ever before heard such soothing, softly modulated tones. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
The phrase "acidulation of perversity" might do, for it is easily modulated to the metrical form. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Thus, evolution is a compound of rebirths, continually modulated — ephemeral, glimpsing eternity. From Wordnik.com. [VII] Reference
So he was customarily compelled to leave them on the floor, while he modulated his own quickening pulse. From Wordnik.com. [Deadheading] Reference
Who can catch the evanescent beauty of her expression or the deep tenderness of her well-modulated voice?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Her voice was so sweet, so melodious, so deliciously modulated, that the young men paused in spite of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
When the business leaders took over the effort, they invited him to join the new, modulated Council for Diversity. From Wordnik.com. ['CAN WE GET ALONG?'] Reference
But if this kind of clever, modulated response to the crisis can't get people shopping again, who knows what will?. From Wordnik.com. [Dressed To Recess] Reference
And then the others and the numbers and the bell and the fine baritone calling out our fates in soft, modulated tones. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Broker] Reference
His carefully modulated positions on the issues and his legalistic hairsplitting about his past only make matters worse. From Wordnik.com. [People's Politics] Reference
You consider: Her voice, the sly metallic glint of it that still rings in the receiver, is perhaps too carefully modulated. From Wordnik.com. [what you do best] Reference
But viewed alongside the tapestries, the cartoons seem much more modulated, suggesting the differences in the mediums used. From Wordnik.com. [Woven into the Fabric of the Church] Reference
"It was kind of you to come to me so quickly after my arrival," she said to him in a low voice that was perfectly modulated. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
In an open office where there are no partitions between the desks one should take especial pains to keep his voice modulated. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
In his clear, modulated tones there was a ring of something like a threat, -- a something which went very far beyond his words. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
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