His tone gave me an uneasy feeling, and I didn't want to voice the question that had popped into my head.

The tone of his voice gave her little choice.

The Mouth's tone gave the lie to his words, though.

The polite tone, in the first instance, gave him away.

His tone gave one to understand that the story was thereby made true.

His tone gave no hint of why he might want to do that.

But then the whole tone of the opening section would have given him intense pleasure.

In Chinese, for example, tones give meanings to individual words but not to whole sentences.

His tone gave the last word a capital letter, a specific meaning.

The tone of my voice must have given her an idea of what was coming.