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Example sentences for "undernote"

Lexicographically close words:
undermined; undermines; undermining; undermost; underneath; undernourished; underpaid; underpart; underparts; underpass
  1. His tone dropped and became gentle with an undernote of pain.

  2. He had detected an undernote in that general murmur of astonishment, which was clearly one of satisfaction.

  3. There was happiness in her laugh, and tenderness and an undernote of triumph.

  4. There was a flash of impatience, an undernote of foreknowledge, in his tone, that made confession at once easier and harder for Roy.

  5. Blake spoke with that indefinable undernote which creeps into men's voices when friend meets friend.

  6. His spirits leaped, he felt unaccountably young and exhilarated; he laughed senselessly and yet with a deep throbbing undernote of delight.

  7. That is, it seemed to, but there was an undernote of irritation in Dunk's voice and he regarded Andy with rather a strange look as they sat in the room preparatory to going to bed.

  8. Andy, but there was an undernote of seriousness in his words.

  9. And yet through all her being there rolled a mighty undernote of joy.

  10. The sea which cannot rest From its undernote of doom (We swooning breast on breast) Shall murmur thro' my room.

  11. The monosyllable came with an undernote of chagrin.

  12. Now Malone spoke with regained composure, but an ominous undernote of threat.

  13. Hamilton recognized the undernote of apprehension with a laugh of frank amusement; a laugh which brought to his eyes their most winning sparkle.

  14. And all the time there was an undernote of music.

  15. It was not so much the words themselves that passed between them that attracted as the undernote of hostility, more felt than apparent--the beginning of a duel, to all appearance so ludicrously onesided, yet destined to endure.

  16. An undernote of bitterness in his tone gave her courage to speak the thought in her mind.

  17. The unconscious use of the pronoun did not escape Paul's notice, and he winced at it, as also at the undernote of reproof in her tone.

  18. Somehow the girls' faces always sobered when they looked at Margaret, and when they spoke to her their voices softened to an undernote of tenderness never used among themselves.

  19. It toned with his pleading undernote like a great minor chord.

  20. He began to post his books, but the child's face drifted between him and the open page, and that appeal of the mother's rang an undernote to the rush and scream of the wind.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undernote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.