How to Use modulation in a Sentence

modulation

noun

• There are so many levels of pitch modulation on all of those tracks.
  — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• There is room for subtler modulation in the script and the staging.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Love songs about the little things — with a little modulation, to boot!
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2024
• 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
• All that green on the right is simply slapped onto the surface, no modulation at all.
  — Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2021
• Down the road at Maserati, sound modulation is more of a hybrid affair.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2021
• His screenplay connects all the dots of the story with no sense of shaping or modulation.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
• And in non-extreme use, near-perfect pedal feel makes modulation easy.
  — Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2018
• So any modulation of this has to be done locally, maybe just within the bladder.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
• 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
• One is the solar modulation of glacier retreats, described above.
  — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Scaffolds, gallows, stocks, pillories, whips, and birch rods are or could be modulations.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• 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
• Washington has screen presence for days, but there’s not much modulation in his performance here.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
• Roblox says its platform does not include any kind of voice modulation, but the case is part of the state's lawsuit against the game company.
  — Michael Ruiz , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
• Through modulations in brushwork, the audience observes the artist in the act of painting.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• These changes would modify the modulation of the frequency of the lensing events and their peak brightness.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Feb. 2026
• An upward modulation meant that Reddy sang with more gusto and volume as the record progressed.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2020
• 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
• So those were all written into the backbone of the story, but then the modulation became my job of finding the inner world.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2025
• As the worms age, modulation of daf-2 and daf-16 then influences their health and longevity.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2019
• From beginning to end there was little modulation in his voice, no effort to lower the decibel level.
  — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
• Each data stream still needs to have independent modulation to encode the data, so there is no saving in power there.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2018
• Hard braking never feels sketchy, and modulation is excellent.
  — New Atlas, 18 Dec. 2025
• Hydraulic have better stopping power and modulation with less hand force at the lever and are more reliable with less maintenance.
  — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 19 Dec. 2020
• Walton’s often eerie choral modulations were lent the same gleam as the fanfares that delivered us into the anthem’s somber finish.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023