A thousand various schemes I tried, And yet was pleased with none; I threw them by, and tunedmy pipe To John o' Badenyon.
None of all this was lost upon Michael, whose nature was ever tuned to the concert pitch of his surroundings.
Hadassah's nature was tuned to the inner consciousness of human beings, as a musician's ear is tuned to the harmonies and discords of music, even to the hundredth part of a tone.
These are the three great chords of might, And he whose ear is tuned aright Will hear no discord in the three, But the most perfect harmony.
Crain quickly detached the compact suit-phone from inside the neck of his own space-suit, and Kent rapidly tuned it to the one he had given Marta Mallen.
Kent took a suit-phone from one of their space-suits and rapidly, tuned it to match the one he had left with Marta Mallen.
When you did not appear there we tuned our radio locator to your heart beats and in that way located you here.
To locate the landing field the pilot watches two vibrating reeds, tuned to the radio beacon, on a virtual radio receiver on his instrument board.
In millions of homes, in thousands of high-flying planes, listeners tuned in at the clear-all hum.
Our machine istuned to be attracted by the planetary force of Venus alone.
She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired.
I do not speak of the selected few, favoured by partial heaven, whose souls are tuned to gladness amid riches and honours, and prudence and wisdom.
The practice and experience gained in quick succession of 'cases' has tuned up their operations to the highest pitch of efficiency.
There is the making of a panic--tuned by their outcry, "God!
Are earstuned to the many-tongued whisperings of rivet and shell-plate, that all hands have an inkling of events?
He tuned his instrument; and such a simple pathetic strain was heard as touched every heart.
At her departure her children wept, but Mr. Great-heart and Mr. Valiant played upon the well-tuned cymbal and harp for joy.
The first note of the scale may be a strip of any convenient size, and the succeeding strips are tuned by carefully cutting away from the under side until the desired tone is produced.
Unlike the violin, however, these should not be drawn too tight, simply stretched evenly across, and must all be tuned in unison.
My ship, the Star Devil, is still on Iapetus, remember; I must find her and get her tuned up again.
Such he might from the outside have appeared to be, but the man within himself was more like a cat scenting for danger, all muscles and senses delicately tuned to alertness.
A pathos of compassion tuned the tone With which Gamaliel so appealed to Paul.
Already tuned to fear, his conscious mind, Quite disconcerted by this fresh surprise Of some detection that he could not guess, Suddenly wrote abroad on all his mien A patent full conviction of himself.
Is it the lyric that most displeaseth, who with his tuned lyre, and well accorded voice, giveth praise, the reward of virtue, to virtuous acts?
Matt tuned up more slowly than ever, and even allowed one of the strings to break that he might gain an extra minute in repairing the damage.
These instruments they took to the bedroom which had been assigned to them, and here, while it was yet early, they tuned up and began to practice upon such simple tunes as both knew by heart.
Right now she's tuned up to top-notch pitch, and a full supply of gas is kept on hand all the time, as well as everything needed in the way of supplies.
The hum of motors and the buzz of propellers being tunedup could be heard in many quarters.
He set the chair for her and she sat down upon it and taking the lute, tuned it and sang to it these verses: When, when will separation and hatred pass away And what is past of joyance come back to make me gay?
So she tunedthe strings and sang these verses: The hurrying tears upon his cheeks course down from either eye' For very passion, and love's fires within his heart flame high.
When I heard him say this, he was magnified in my eyes and his loyalty was certified to me; so I complied with his wish and took the lute and tuned it.
Each kettledrum gives but one note at a time, and as it takes some little time to alter all the screws, two or three kettledrums, sometimes more, each tuned to a different note, are used in an orchestra or band.
Formerly the kettledrums used to be treated as transposing instruments, the notation, as for the horn, being in C, the key to which the kettledrums were to be tuned being indicated in the score.
Calhoun could become like that-- The loud-speaker tuned to outside frequencies muttered again.
He was changing to other clothing when he heard the muttering report, picked up by a ship-receiver tuned to planetary police wave length.
You happened to be tuned in one of those handy little gadgets our lady friends here use.
He touched something, a flickering like a badly tuned tri-dee--far more fuzzy than the mind pictures the Wyvern had paraded for him.
And, so tuned in, your desire for the wolverines being pretty powerful just then, they came.
With pipe new tuned and merry trill, The lark uprises from her bed 'Mong grasses wet with dews unshed, And puts to shame the whip-poor-will At peep of dawn.
The pond, above which evening bent To gaze upon her gypsy face; Wherein the twinkling night would trace A vague, inverted firmament; In which the green frogs tuned their bass, And firefly sparkles came and went.
And the lure of the pine on the Mohawk trail, Is tuned to the spirits' restful mood, It murmurs and calls on the passing gale, For all to enjoy its solitude.
Ever the varied voices about you tuned to the sighing of the night and gently murmuring pine mingle and blend with the sound of the falls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tuned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
