How to Use retune in a Sentence

retune

verb
  • To account for the extra mass, the Multimatic spool-valve dampers have been retuned.
    — Car and Driver, 31 May 2023
  • Those that rely on specialized senses can’t just retune their entire Umwelt.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • The product will then retune the audio for the optimal, consistent bass levels.
    — PCMAG, 26 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Plus modes keep the engine running and retune the transmission for more immediate response.
    — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The study authors propose that passing gravitational waves can subtly retune the light emitted by atoms.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Kenneth Bledsoe retuned to find Elon Musk leading the dismantling of the agency.
    — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • And finally, Lindsey Lohan retuned our focus to this month's demand for self-care with a fresh face and a monochromic moment, eye mask and all.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The immune system, while not exactly depressed, is retuned to accommodate the fetus.
    — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There is a possibility that its next owner could retune the powertrain, according to The Drive.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • In those who did not have a strong immune system response, the caner retuned within a year, according to results published earlier this year in the journal Nature.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Among the largest in France, its 8,000 pipes, coated in lead dust during the fire, were disassembled, cleaned, and retuned entirely by ear.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Research has also shown that desirable low-stress rat environments retune their brains’ reward circuits, such as the nucleus accumbens.
    — Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The great organ's 8,000 pipes, which were covered in toxic dust after the fire and have been disassembled, cleaned and retuned, will also play a psalm as the doors re-open.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Netflix series have retuned below their previous seasons recently.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 2 June 2026
  • Born in Boston, our Paz spent his early years in Bolivia, where his parents came from, retuning to Massachusetts as a child.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Instead, look at and listen to what’s happening around you now and continuously reevaluate and retune your AI efforts.
    — Sheila Rohra, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The piece is nearly identical in structure and coloring to another cup the Met retuned to Italy in 2022.
    — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The Bears offense has gone 23 possessions since its last touchdown and managed only two end-zone trips in 34 drives since retuning from London.
    — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • While the core of the engine has been used for several of the 12Cilindri’s successors, it’s been heavily revised and retuned for its current application.
    — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 8 Apr. 2026
  • It's also retuned the Adaptive EQ feature, which tweaks audio output based on the seal created by the earcups and the mics measuring what's coming through the drivers.
    — New Atlas, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Skrillex has never restricted his distension of sonic materials to merely supersizing his bass lines, and among other things, the voices on this album are routinely phased and retuned and cut up.
    — Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Si models feature upgraded brakes, wider low-profile tires, and sport suspension—the dampers have been retuned for 2025 to take advantage of the Civic’s stiff body structure.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Supporters in Rosario were absolutely delighted to hear the news this week, as the club announced that its biggest ever export would be retuning home to play in the Argentinian league.
    — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Banks retuned Ochs’ Stella Harmony acoustic guitar, began to run the dull side of the utensil up and down the strings, and there, on his mother’s back porch, Ochs learned how to play the blues.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2023
  • After Costner’s 37-yard run for his fourth touchdown, the defense got into the act on the game’s final play when Cameron Johnson retuned a fumble 55 yards for a touchdown.
    — Craig J. Clary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • With the film’s relative modesty, Jarmusch is tuning up—while also retuning the world of cinema, its critics and its viewers, to his own distinctive note and preparing them for his higher harmonics to come.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025

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