How to Use fine-tune in a Sentence

fine-tune

verb
  • Now’s your chance to take a taste and fine-tune the flavor.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Shit’s gotta sit around for a minute … fine-tune it, perfect it.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 July 2023
  • Sh–’s gotta sit around for a minute … fine-tune it, perfect it.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 25 July 2023
  • Now, health systems can build on it and fine-tune it to meet their needs.
    — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The chain of command starts to edit it and fine-tune it.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • My brain will be fine-tuned to keeping my glass and tummy full.
    — Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Adjustable straps or buckles can help fine-tune your fit as well.
    — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • This is the moment to fine-tune your goals and get organized.
    — Valerie Mesa, People.com, 31 May 2025
  • The product as a whole needs to be fine-tuned for fan consumption.
    — Zach Harper, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
  • This takes some trial to fine-tune the time and water required.
    — oregonlive, 15 July 2023
  • This journal will serve as a valuable tool in fine-tuning your dose.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Many times this involves fine-tuning the robot process as well.
    — Jeff Mahler, Forbes.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Want to learn how to make the perfect latte or fine-tune your baking skills?
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This approach helps to fine-tune policies and controls for each agent.
    — Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • Babbel has built-in speech recognition to help fine-tune your accent as well.
    — PC Magazine, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Still, fine-tuning the mix proved far more useful than starting over.
    — Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Babbel has built-in speech recognition to help fine-tune your accent, too.
    — Stackcommerce Team (sponsored), PCMAG, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Focus on that and fine-tune the details on what that looks and feels like in every area.
    — Tatianna Tarot, Refinery29, 2 Dec. 2025
  • That’s why hotels work so hard to fine-tune their atmosphere with the right playlists.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2024
  • That big-picture view helped them fine-tune designs to match what was already on the ground.
    — Kathleen Kewley, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Want to fine-tune which apps refresh in the background (and drain your battery in the process)?
    — Simon Hill Brian Barrett, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2024
  • There, Black poets of all stripes could tune out the world and instead fine-tune their craft.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Have you been involved in any effort to train or fine-tune chatbots for legal work?
    — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 10 June 2024
  • Have you been involved in any effort to train or fine-tune chatbots for legal work?
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • Have you been involved in any effort to train or fine-tune chatbots for legal work?
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • This helped them fine-tune its application.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And over the years the property has fine-tuned its approach to wellness.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The next application would look to fine-tune and strengthen the case for those projects.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Enrolling them in a dog sports class, like fly ball or agility, may also help your dog fine-tune their smarts.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
  • This change allowed researchers to better fine-tune the beams to their targets.
    — Richard J. Price, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025

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