How to Use modulation in a Sentence

modulation

noun

• And for some of those who come to The Voice Lab with the goal of voice modulation, the stakes are high.
  — Nicole Blackwood, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• This is because the changes in the shape of the mouth alter the modulation of our voices.
  — Stella Marie Hombach, Scientific American, 1 June 2020
• The last of my three gripes: The brake modulation has too much travel.
  — Stuart Schwartzapfel, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2012
• There is room for subtler modulation in the script and the staging.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• These graphs show the result: the top of the graph shows less modulation, i.e. a more difficult task.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2014
• There are so many levels of pitch modulation on all of those tracks.
  — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• Down the road at Maserati, sound modulation is more of a hybrid affair.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2021
• All that green on the right is simply slapped onto the surface, no modulation at all.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
• What made his music special was in the cleverness of his syntax, the modulation of his voice, the depth of his grooves.
  — Paul Thompson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
• But one of his first lessons for pupils is vocal modulation.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2017
• Brake modulation is fine at the top of the pedal's travel but gets a little grabby in the last few feet before a stop.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 5 May 2022
• As the worms age, modulation of daf-2 and daf-16 then influences their health and longevity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2019
• His screenplay connects all the dots of the story with no sense of shaping or modulation.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
• The steering marries ideal effort levels with a strong sense of straight ahead, and the brake modulation came in for praise as well.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2021
• Through modulations in brushwork, the audience observes the artist in the act of painting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• The beauty of the brushwork and the virtuoso modulation of color and surface must have something to do with it.
  — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• But the studies note that the modulation is small, such that the effect is of no practical use for prediction.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Jan. 2018
• So any modulation of this has to be done locally, maybe just within the bladder.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
• Those sorts of modulations get lost when every character wears a mic, as is the case in this production.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 July 2017
• Heat modulation proves the secret to good grilling: Use enough for flavor, perfect texture and browning, but not so much that food tastes burnt or acrid.
  — Jeanmarie Brownson, charlotteobserver, 26 June 2018
• Greenspan is a master of height with heart: He’s never not stylized—his long fingers are never not placed just so—but his modulations are those of a dancer.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• The more important factors are things like the spacing and proportions of spaces inside letters and the modulation of stroke weight — how thick are the thicks, how thin are the thins.
  — Curbed, 20 Jan. 2023
• Quick launches required some throttle modulation to keep the Ram from spinning its tires and burrowing into the sand on the spot.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 23 Oct. 2020
• An upward modulation meant that Reddy sang with more gusto and volume as the record progressed.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2020
• And in non-extreme use, near-perfect pedal feel makes modulation easy.
  — Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2018
• Every sound on that tape is re-created in real time: each nuance, pause, breath, modulation, break, cough and cry.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Again, there’s no variety, there’s no modulation of it.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• The standard technique is called pulse-width modulation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Mar. 2023
• Cuarón wrote one screenplay with more than 300 pages, and later divided that into chapters based on the piece’s dramatic modulations.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
• Systems that predict reward or punishment are deeply intertwined with the modulation of stress: many of the same neurotransmitters and brain regions involved in motivating us to seek pleasure and satiety also help to keep us safe.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024