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Examples
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She'd even figured out what she was going to play first: X, this loud, off-tone band with a screechy female vocalist.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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Mr. Steele, the party's first African-American chairman, was widely criticized for lackluster fund raising and a series of off-tone public statements.
Priebus Ousts Steele as RNC Chairman Patrick O'Connor 2011
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She'd even figured out what she was going to play first: X, this loud, off-tone band with a screechy female vocalist.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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I want one of the blue and red off-tone portraits of our next president.
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No words at all, just a dry rustle of not-voice, a tone off-tone, a thought on a breath.
DarklyDreamingDexter 2004
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No words at all, just a dry rustle of not-voice, a tone off-tone, a thought on a breath.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter Lindsay, Jeff 2004
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Dencer lifts the brass bell, and it clangs off-tone.
The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998
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Mr. Steele, the party's first African-American chairman, had been widely criticized for lackluster fund raising and a series of off-tone public statements.
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It's a very moving moment, but Pyeatt's response seems off-tone.
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She'd even figured out what she was going to play first: X, this loud, off-tone band with a screechy female vocalist.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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