How to Use modulate in a Sentence

modulate

verb

• The music quickly modulates from its original key, changing the mood of the song.
• Because she doesn't modulate her voice, she sounds the same when she's excited as when she's sad.
• Part of Ryan's pitch has been to put away the pitchforks and modulate the tone.
  — Philip Elliott / Youngstown, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
• These large–scale, slow changes to the oceans in turn then modulate the climate.
  — David Randall, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2021
• Move the stick side to side to control the ailerons—the adjustable control surfaces at the edge of the wings, which modulate the angle of bank in a turn.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2020
• The clutch pedal is light and easy to modulate, and the shifter moves through its gates with little effort.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2020
• The brake pedal is race-car firm and easy to modulate, which is good because there's no ABS.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2021
• This would be a game-changer in the interlinked fight to modulate climate change and protect the oceans.
  — Michelle McMurry-Heath Reprints, STAT, 23 May 2021
• There are inklings, though, from studies of the past and present, to suggest that weather will indeed modulate the spread of the pandemic.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 18 June 2020
• Still, the Mazda’s stoppers have good bite and are easy to modulate, which inspires you to push the chassis harder.
  — Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2017
• As always, the right tone is the one that’s right for you and for your friendship, so modulate accordingly.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
• Parrots use their tongue and mouth to modulate calls similar to the way humans speak.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Oct. 2023
• Nerve cells have tiny pores in their cell membranes that regulate the flow of sodium ions into the cell, which in turn modulates the firing of the cell.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 29 May 2017
• Nerve cells have tiny pores in their cell membranes that regulate the flow of sodium ions into the cell, which in turn modulates the firing of the cell.
  — Karen Weintraub, Scientific American, 1 June 2017
• If one or more wheel begins to lock, the system will modulate the brakes, preventing the lockup—and avoiding a skid.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2016
• Up to this point, Phillips has nimbly modulated the faceprint of our world so that her novel’s events are just slightly askew.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• The clouds reflect the sun’s radiation away from the Earth’s surface and modulate the exchange of heat between Earth and space.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
• The 43's brake pedal has a strong initial bite preceded by a short stroke, which was tricky to modulate in stop-and-go traffic.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 11 June 2020
• Many social, hoofed herbivores are chatty and have ways to modulate their vocal tracts to make a range of wails and grunts.
  — Todd Marshall, National Geographic, 4 Feb. 2016
• Yet that mainstream platform hasn’t led her to change her style or modulate her message.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
• Lieberson’s simple melody needs a singer to modulate the line with vowel sounds to imbue it with passion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2021
• That was hard to modulate, and a very exciting challenge.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• The trouble is that Lee will not modulate his antic music.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• The 65cc and up bikes start to introduce manual clutches and require more rider skills to modulate the clutch lever and click through gears via the shifter.
  — Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2020
• The steering is precise enough to avoid spoiling the suspension's fun, and the pedals are plenty easy to modulate.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 18 May 2023
• On a couple of laps around my favorite section of curving roads, the steering was precise and brakes were very easy to modulate.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The new Alexa will also modulate its own voice to create a more natural-seeming back-and-forth.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, O'Shaughnessey has learned how to modulate her voice for different characters as part of honing her craft.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• Like the rest of the family, the Ioniq 6 has steering wheel paddles that let the driver modulate the level of regenerative braking or temporarily maximize it.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Sep. 2024
• The company is working to isolate the specific molecules that worms use to help modulate the immune system for autoimmune disorders so they can be delivered without the side effects of a parasitic worm infection.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024