Tune

//tjuːn//

"Tune" in a Sentence (34 examples)

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

The tune was not familiar to me.

Mary often hums a tune as she works in the kitchen.

That very tune reminded me of my adolescence.

The piano was out of tune; it sounded very bad.

I had to pay the bill to the tune of ten dollars.

I remember hearing this tune before.

This tune is quite familiar to us all.

The guitar is in tune.

Younger Cubans tend to tune into the American television network.

Eric played a catchy tune on his acoustic guitar and Alyssa played the drums.

Your engine needs a good tune.

Your engine is now in tune.

This piano is not in tune.

Pray you now, if it may the ſtand with the tune of your voices, that I may bee Conſull, I haue heere the Cuſtomarie Gowne.

A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he […] is dragged unwillingly to [his task].

You heard the new Rizzle Kicks song? — Tune!

to tune a piano or a violin

The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

She bids me hope; oh Heav'ns; ſhe pities me! / And pity ſtill foreruns approching love; / As Lightning does the Thunder! Tune your Harps / Ye Angels to that ſound; and thou, my Heart, / Make room to entertain thy flowing Joy.

Fortune foretun'd the Dying Notes of Rome: / Till I, thy Conſul ſole, conſol'd thy Doom.

Tuning the engine gave me an extra twenty horsepower.

Tune your mind, and anything becomes possible.

Tune to Channel 6 for all your favourite daytime shows.

My ears were tuned to the sounds of the forest.

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[H]ee hath incurred the euerlaſting diſpleaſure of the King, who had euen tun'd his bounty to ſing happineſſe to him.

For now to ſorrow must I tune my ſong, / And ſet my Harpe to notes of ſaddeſt wo, […]

Ginsberg sang some poems from William Blake which he had "tuned".

To ſee great Hercules whipping a Gigge, / And profound Sallomon to tune a Iigge.

Fountains and yee, that warble, as ye flow, / Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praiſe.

Are you tuning me?

[…] Those who are highly skilled in manipulating the Vocaloid technology—e.g., tuning Miku's singing voices—arrange existing[…]

LOLA's voice is used simply to render basic notes and words with no pitch or expression tuning applied.

This compiling of a track holds many parallels with “tuning” a Miku track, […]

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