Such widely shared doubts, led by a vigilant press, are lending an ominous tone to the campaign.

The dark colors of the background lend a grotesque and nightmarish tone to the painting.

That absence has lent the proceedings an imbalanced tone.

Perhaps it was the cowl that lent his voice a deep, vatic tone.

The author lends a more approving tone to the notion of using a spoken word as a trustworthy contract.

That lends a special tone to our lives and certainly to the art we produce.

This might not sound like much, but it lends the game quite a realistic tone.

Emban's carefully staged thanksgiving service had lent a solemn tone to the morning, and no one really wanted to break it.

It lends a whole new tone to oil vulnerability.