Linguists debate whether the modal case developed to mark ability, intention, necessity, obligation, permission, and possibility across several language families.

The professor used examples of modal jazz in class to demonstrate how improvisation can be guided by modes rather than by chord changes.

By modalising his assertions, he made them sound less decisive.

In this dialect, the speaker modalises statements with a rising intonation to indicate uncertainty.

The editor modalised the tense in the paragraph to reflect the hypothetical nature of the events.

Her modalist interpretation of the early Church Fathers caused heated debate among theologians.

During the debate, the modalist argued that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are modes of one God rather than distinct persons.

The theologian criticized the modalistic interpretation of the doctrine as historically misguided.

The seminar sparked a heated debate between modalists and traditional Trinitarians over the nature of God's persons.

In the paper, the author chose to modalise the auxiliary verbs to highlight subtle differences in meaning.