How to Use song in a Sentence

song

noun
  • I could hear the song of a sparrow.
  • He sang a love song.
  • The song was playing on the radio.
  • The event was celebrated in song by a folk group.
  • So some of these songs are from the last four or five years?
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Midway through the song, fake snow even fell across the stage.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
  • And, of course, the genre of song played at the Mos Eisley Cantina: jizz.
    Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • That’s a trick Arthur uses to signal to her mind that the song is over.
    WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • And how much were the original songs rewritten along the way?
    Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The song was still playing coming out of the break as Johnson went to the free-throw line.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • For season three, Bareilles wrote the song that Dawn sings at the end of the group’s tour performance.
    Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2024
  • For their part, Smith shared a video of some of his dancers with a snippet of the song playing in the background.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • There was one song where pyro went off for the entire song.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Plus, the parody song paired with the end credits is top notch.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The craft requires voice, but not song; movement, but not dance.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The fourth and final country song to top the Hot 100 this year was, at last, a feel-good story.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Expect the song to be a highlight of her open-air concert here.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • Every song, some of which are self-produced, has room for his voice to breathe and his words to sink in.
    Max Bell, SPIN, 30 May 2023
  • This was a big deal for Swift fans, as five songs from the regular setlist were cut for time in the 2-hour-and-45-minute movie.
    Ellise Shafer, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The song requires the brothers to sing slow-tempo falsettos.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 11 June 2023
  • Pop returns the favor by appearing on a reprise of the song to close the album.
    Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The Louisville native performs a six-minute song at the beginning of the second act.
    Kirby Adams louisville Courier Journal, The Courier-Journal, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The song aired at the climax of the season finale last night (September 24).
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Black and Gass also shot some footage dancing to the song on the red carpet for a future video.
    Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2024
  • What’s one of your favorite songs on your getting-ready playlist?
    Tiffany Dodson, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 May 2023
  • Only one of the 23 songs performed over the show’s two hours and 15 minutes didn’t make any use of the horn section at all.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 15 July 2023
  • Also, a ton of great songs have come out, many of them likely to make our year-end list in about six months.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • The thing about music is that good songs have no allegiance.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Tell me about some of those song choices and musical guests.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Based around the season’s cold open, the song harkens back to the timelessness of East Coast hip-hop and features Bumpy’s anthem.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 11 June 2023

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