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.
• The cast has learned to modulate the mirth as needed.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026
• That insight didn’t lead him to modulate his tone.
  — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• These large–scale, slow changes to the oceans in turn then modulate the climate.
  — David Randall, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2021
• Learn to pause at key moments, modulate your tone, and steer clear of filler words.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
• Part of Ryan's pitch has been to put away the pitchforks and modulate the tone.
  — Philip Elliott / Youngstown, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
• In workplaces, men learn to modulate.
  — John Casey, Them., 12 Dec. 2025
• Yet that mainstream platform hasn’t led her to change her style or modulate her message.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
• 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
• Joe was modulating it brilliantly and knowing how much of it to use and not to.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
• Parrots use their tongue and mouth to modulate calls similar to the way humans speak.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Oct. 2023
• But Teo has learned to modulate his behavior.
  — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
• But her singing now is less showy and more nuanced and carefully modulated.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
• The Civic's pedal is very low effort, takes time to get used to and is hard to modulate when needed.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
• The idea that eye gaze can be used to modulate synchrony is intriguing to other researchers.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The brakes take some warming up and have a firmer-than-average pedal, but are rather pleasant to modulate.
  — Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• His floor is that of a steady contributor who knows how to modulate his speed to substantial effect.
  — Ben Standig, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
• The movement of the membrane uses that air to create modulating high and low air pressure.
  — Jaina Grey, WIRED, 7 May 2024
• Drugs that impede the virus or modulate the immune system are being studied across the country.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The new Alexa will also modulate its own voice to create a more natural-seeming back-and-forth.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• The website allows survey-takers to modulate the amount of funding a project should receive.
  — Elissa Welle, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2022