Before we started recording dialogue, the sound engineer captured thirty seconds of room tone.

The orchestra's tone color changed subtly when the violins switched from arco to pizzicato.

When a moderator dismisses earnest complaints as tone policing, they prevent genuine grievances from being heard.

She's tone policing marginalized voices instead of engaging with their arguments.

In many tonal languages, tone-bearing units determine how pitch patterns spread across syllables.

The tone-bearing unit, typically the syllable nucleus in autosegmental phonology, governs how tones associate across a word.

She studied the twelve-tone technique to better understand Schoenberg's compositions.

Although most people use smartphones now, my grandmother still prefers touch-tone dialing on her landline because it's familiar.

In the late 1990s, many carriers experimented with video dial tone as a way to deliver home shopping and on-demand films over the telephone network.

Many older offices still use touch-tone dialling for their internal phone systems.