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Example sentences for "like tone"

  • Certainly," he said, in a business-like tone, and opened a book beside him.

  • Baron, in no way changing the quiet, business-like tone he had used throughout the interview.

  • He has rather avoided direct intercourse with me; but when it has been necessary to address a few words to me, he has always spoken in a cool, business-like tone, making no allusion to that which had passed between us.

  • The voice in which he spoke was the dry, business-like tone he used towards Ambassadors of the Powers when discussing the political situation, as he was almost daily compelled to do.

  • It seems a clear case of murder," exclaimed the other in a sharp, precise, business-like tone.

  • The speaker spat on his hands and in a calmer, more business-like tone said: "Well, come on.

  • She hurried down to the water's edge and addressed the two gamblers in a business-like tone: "We've no time to lose.

  • There was a business- like tone in his correspondent's letter which exactly suited his ideas of what it was advisable his agent should be.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like tone" 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:
    fallen women; good natured; like another; like best; like enough; like everybody; like everything; like himself; like kind; like leaves; like lightning; like love; like many; like most; like nature; like order; like shape; like snow; like structure; like the; like thine; like water; likely enough; take offence; will agree; young trees