CHORD in a Sentence
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31 example sentences for CHORD, such as:
1. He felt the plucking at the strange chord.
2. Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude.
3. The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord.
4. A chord consisting of a root with its third, seventh, and ninth.
5. His words seemed to have struck some deep chord in his own nature.
2. Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude.
3. The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord.
4. A chord consisting of a root with its third, seventh, and ninth.
5. His words seemed to have struck some deep chord in his own nature.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CHORD
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chord
v. play chords on (a string instrument)
n. a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
2 The appeal of her helplessness touched in him, as it always did, a latent chord of inclination.
3 It was a feeling which he had seen before in his mother; but no chord within vibrated to it.
4 Therefore, if it had depended upon me to touch the prevailing chord among them with any skill, I should have made a poor hand of it.
5 There was always something in her modest voice that seemed to touch a chord within me, answering to that sound alone.
6 The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord.
7 His words seemed to have struck some deep chord in his own nature.
8 At the centre of this chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was pronounced.
9 He felt the plucking at the strange chord.
10 With his instinctive delicacy Edmond had preferred avoiding any touch on this painful chord, and Faria had been equally silent.
11 But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune.
12 Sonya struck the first chord of the prelude.
13 As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
14 From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.
15 He looked at the back of the seat, as if he were addressing himself to that; and softly played upon it with his hands, as if he were striking chords upon a dumb piano.
Example Sentence:
1 His views, and those of many of his counterparts in other European countries, may be unpalatable to the liberal political mainstream, but they clearly struck a chord among a portion of the population which is increasingly unsettled by the growing number of immigrants to Europe.
2 A chord consisting of a root with its third, seventh, and ninth.
3 Many of the things she says will strike a chord with other young women.
4 The party's policy on childcare facilities has struck a responsive chord with women voters.
5 Composer Charles Ives often used dissonance clashing or unresolved chords for special effects in his musical works.