How to Use retune in a Sentence

retune

verb
Definition of retunenext
  • Hunt fiddled with the dial, trying to retune into the news.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • To account for the extra mass, the Multimatic spool-valve dampers have been retuned.
    — Car and Driver, 31 May 2023
  • That is, can the researchers retune a sense of smell that evolution has perfected for the moth over hundreds of millions of years of evolution?
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Jan. 2021
  • The product will then retune the audio for the optimal, consistent bass levels.
    — PCMAG, 26 Oct. 2022
  • During a rest in the slow movement, inaudibly to us, Harvey managed to retune his low C string for the unusual B-flat Schumann calls for.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
  • Those that rely on specialized senses can’t just retune their entire Umwelt.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • Her singing voice - which she's had to regain and retune from the damaging effects of dysphonia, the result of Lyme disease - is improving.
    — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Plus modes keep the engine running and retune the transmission for more immediate response.
    — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Dodge retuned the Demon’s suspension to reduce front-end lift and to keep the rear tires planted under hard acceleration, but Kuniskis says the Demon 170 can still pull a wheelie.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The immune system, while not exactly depressed, is retuned to accommodate the fetus.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Truth be known, the designers and engineers had only enough time to rearrange the front and rear sheetmetal, redo the interior trim, retune the suspension, and fiddle with the standard-equipment list.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Engineers have started to retune software at nuclear, hydro and fossil-fuel power stations that corrects small deviations from the 50-hertz frequency on which the grid hums, Mr. Kudrytskyi said.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 26 June 2022
  • Recognizing the need, relaxed rules for telehealth were written into many pandemic emergency orders, including in Minnesota, setting up a scramble to retune health care delivery.
    — Glenn Howatt, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021

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