How to Use perfect pitch in a Sentence
perfect pitch
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Wayne, who had perfect pitch, helped arrange the band's harmonies and played lead guitar.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
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Noah, then 13, was already earning praise for his perfect pitch.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
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For five hours Jaiden Griffith was looking for that perfect pitch.
—Steve Gorches, Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2022
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Platt wasn't the only actor who Murphy wooed with a perfect pitch.
—Mike Cidoni Lennox, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
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Wayne, who had perfect pitch, helped arrange the band's harmonies, and also played lead guitar.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
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Polished and silky on the palate, the tannins are elegant, adding a perfect pitch of structure.
—Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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His experience from a young age, his perfect pitch, his stage presence, his gift for writing.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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Users don't need to have perfect pitch in order to get the feature to work, according to Google.
—Rachel Metz, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
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In a perfect pitch, the audience gets carried along, almost sensing the next thought.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
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Songland is pulling back the curtain on the process of how a song gets taken from a rough idea to the top of the charts, perfect pitch not required!
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 20 June 2019
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The blue of the bathyal zone bleeds into the black of the abyssal, the light winks out to perfect pitch, and the dark goes on and on, for eight monotonous hours.
—Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
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Brands with perfect pitch decks and airtight strategies fall flat, while others, rougher around the edges but relentless, find traction.
—Joel Goldstein, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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His perfect pitch and memorization skills are a big assist in playing the piano, which has largely been self-taught.
—NBC News, 5 June 2019
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In addition to an amazing range, their musical ear places them at relative perfect pitch.
—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
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Lincoln Financial Field has a perfect pitch.
—Krystle Rich, CBS News, 13 May 2026
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The second was supposed to free him to cut loose rather than nibble around the plate in often-maddening attempts to throw the perfect pitch.
—Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2018
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Just take a brief survey and a quick pitch-naming test to help determine if perfect pitch differs for different timbres.
—Citizen Science Salon, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2015
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White Sox catcher Lucas Giolito was behind the plate to catch her perfect pitch.
—Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
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His mother, an aspiring opera singer, channeled her musical ambitions into her son, who had perfect pitch.
—Tim Greiving, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2020
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The vocalist singing the mournful, gorgeous Portuguese music with perfect pitch is stunning in a black silk dress, her dark hair piled high on top of her head.
—Jill Gleeson, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2018
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People with perfect pitch can instantly identify each note or chord played without the benefit of a reference note.
—John Blake, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
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Either way, the Hawkeyes played the new national signing day with perfect pitch and flawless execution.
—Scott Dochterman, ajc, 20 Dec. 2017
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Some people have a photographic memory; others have perfect pitch.
—Kenneth Goetz, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 June 2023
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Mia is a brilliant 20-year-old studying electronic music in college, with perfect pitch and a dark sense of humor streaked with a healthy dose of cynicism.
—Gabino Iglesias, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
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Strong and Herzog both find conversational menace like certain musicians sniff out a perfect pitch.
—The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024
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The ability to identify or produce any musical note from memory without reference, aka true perfect pitch, is a rare gift.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2024
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As brands and leagues and individuals aim for the perfect pitch, some get too caught up in chasing social-media clout without really saying anything.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 4 June 2020
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In 2016, Beato decided on the spur of the moment to make a video demonstrating Dylan’s perfect pitch.
—John Blake, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
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Charlie Puth, known for his perfect pitch and viral TikToks about making music, will sing the national anthem.
—Bebe Hodges, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Feb. 2026
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The highlight for Thomas was following a bad miss left of the green on the par-5 11th — the pin was to the left — and hitting a perfect pitch-and-run into the cup for eagle.
—Dallas Morning News, 13 Mar. 2026
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