How to Use allegro in a Sentence

allegro

noun

• The symphony's first movement is an allegro.
• The last movement, a spirited allegro, was assured, perfectly clean and just a hair this side of too fast.
  — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 2 Apr. 2017
• So too did the artists bring out the Mendelssohnian grace of the allegro molto from Opus 8, the imitative figures bouncing from one instrument to the next.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• The ballerina role remains one of the peaks of allegro bravura.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
• At each stage of class—the barre exercises, the serene adagio movements, and allegro jumps from petit to grande—there’s a code, a recipe, literal steps to doing things well.
  — Matt Ortile, SELF, 16 Aug. 2018
• The first movement is a dramatic sonata-allegro form, and Kuan’s deft handling of the many tempo changes enhanced the sense of sense of inevitable progression built into the music.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 5 May 2018
• The final allegro came from a flock of cackling kookaburras outside my villa.
  — George Epaminondas, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2017
• Whether the music is adagio or allegro, this dance is always pedal to the metal — the dancers running, spinning, one leaping headlong into the others’ arms, another rolling across the stage as the others jump over her.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2019
• The third and final movement is another sonata-allegro form, which incorporates quotations from the first and second movements.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• With trombones and tuba anchoring the harmony, this allegro con anima lived in a histrionic-free zone.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Music director Eric Jacobsen drew out the rhythmic accents of the allegro first movement.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• The Molto allegro finale has been thought to represent the pumping of ship engines.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
• In a drying and warming world, fast-developing meat-eaters and the allegro-singing fathers that sire them might have an edge.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
• The allegro has gestural spans that collapse if not sustained, and these were carried over the entire work.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022
• Surely that means just a little slower than the main allegro.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 17 Sep. 2021
• In second gear, his singing V-8 seems to jump tempo, allegro to presto.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 29 May 2020