1.   At present, regional news broadcasts have the tone of a modified sensationalist journalism.

2.   The speech had religious tones to it.

3.   Frost at Midnight, while certainly not explicitly Christian, has tones of Christian sympathy.

4.   Finished in the dry and restrained Alsatian manner, this wine has tones of apple and citrus, notably lime.

5.   He has the tone of a country preacher when he talks, his voice rising, his fist pounding the desk.

6.   He especially fails to define Lee clearly as the noble hero, and to have Morales tone down his natural likability enough to make the villain suitably ferocious.

7.   Judiciously selected quotations from speeches, letters and other sources are woven into a verbal collage that has the tone of a digressive after-dinner speech.

8.   Most of the evening has the tone of an illustrated lecture.

9.   Other sites have ring tones that are downloadable to a computer for transfer to a phone.

10.   Recently Greene and Burghardt collaborated on an experiment to measure the awareness of the hognose snake, an effort that Burghardt said had anthropomorphic tones.