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Example sentences for "high pitch"

  • To obtain a good control of the voice in a high pitch, practice frequently and energetically with the greatest force and in the highest key you can command.

  • Only a small amount, however, was subscribed: the maintenance of the Cremieux schools in Egypt was only accidentally connected with the main question, and was not likely to keep the exaltation of the Jews at a high pitch.

  • Footnote 27: "High pitch" is employed mostly in bands; the reason for its use being that the wind instruments are much more brilliant when tuned to the higher pitch.

  • In the case of the brass instruments, a tuning slide is usually provided, and the same instrument can therefore be utilized in either low or high pitch combinations.

  • The mob which had gathered here was so dense, and was lashed to such a high pitch of vicious fury, that I felt convinced we should have to succumb to overwhelming numbers.

  • Throughout the day I was keyed to a high pitch of nervous expectancy.

  • Incidents of this character occurred every few minutes in every barrack, which was not surprising seeing that we were all keyed to a high pitch of fretfulness while tempers were hasty.

  • A startling thought had come suddenly into his mind which stirred him to a high pitch of excitement.

  • She was no longer the happy, free-from-care girl who had emerged from the house a few minutes before, but a woman stirred to a high pitch of anger, the same as when she faced Curly in front of the cabin by the lake.

  • Curly was fully aware that the girl was becoming wrought up to a high pitch of excitement, and he regretted that he had told her anything about Dan.

  • Do we express the following thoughts and emotions in a low or a high pitch?

  • Thought and individual taste must generally be your guide as to where to use a low, a moderate, or a high pitch.

  • If you have been talking on a high pitch, take a low one on your emphatic ideas.

  • In high pitch, read in as high pitch as you can, and at the same time keep the tone pure, and you will find your voice gradually gain in compass.

  • Many speakers make the mistake of using a high pitch, and render their speech very ineffective by so doing.

  • He acknowledged Owen's salute somewhat surlily, and rode off with the adjutant, while Owen, his spirits raised to a high pitch, clapped heels to the fine Mahratta horse he rode and went furiously off the parade ground.

  • But the Mahrattas were far too many for them, and their anger and hate had been raised to a high pitch by the losses they had already sustained.

  • Konig, by using pure tones of high pitch, has settled the question.

  • The men are getting worked up to a high pitch.

  • The men had become worked up to a high pitch of excitement over their leader's words, which had been skilfully chosen.

  • In his subtle, unscrupulous manner, Cavard was working up his hearers to a high pitch of excitement.

  • With black-game the first stoop is generally the most deadly, but it must be made from a high pitch.

  • It is with grouse and black-game, more than with any other quarry, that you see at once when they get up the immense advantage of a high pitch.

  • And one of the best cards of a game-hawk is a high pitch.

  • A high pitch is the beauty of a game-hawk.

  • The part of Senta was essentially suited to her, and there were just at that moment peculiar circumstances in her life which brought her naturally emotional temperament to a high pitch of tension.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high pitch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drew back; future things; high and; high antiquity; high card; high chief; high degree; high dudgeon; high grade; high order; high position; high price; high range; high rate; high society; high speeds; high temperature; high time; high vacuum; higher level; higher plants; higher rank; highly polished; highly specialized; human science; pretty maiden