How to Use aria in a Sentence

aria

noun

• But few of us would dare sing an aria in public, or even a folk song.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
• No chance Roger would note any of this midway through his mugging aria.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Stuff like leitmotifs, or the way that certain set pieces feel like arias.
  — Simon Abrams, Esquire, 8 June 2016
• As the cat moves, the sound shifts and changes, evolving from ethereal arias to scratchy white noise.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
• That aria was a joy, but so indeed was the entire performance.
  — Joe Banno, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• The staging sometimes treats these speeches like favorite arias in a beloved opera.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• Every aria on the disc is a rarity and every one is a winner.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 1 July 2017
• What could the bright bounce of the Four Tops have in common with a Mozart aria?
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2021
• Then, we are left with strings that feel plucked from the saddest yé-yé tracks and Maria Callas arias.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2019
• This isn’t about forcing yourself to go to the opera when an aria only gives you a headache (or puts you to sleep).
  — Theresa Tamkins, SELF, 3 May 2024
• He’s lost in his leather aria, grinning, his wild grey curls alert, electrified by the music.
  — Carolyn Figel, Hazlitt, 27 Nov. 2024
• These variations are grouped in threes, and each one, like the aria, is 32 measures long.
  — Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• Tosca famously sings in her gorgeous Act 2 aria, lived for art, and lived for love.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
• The physicists scanned the aria in lines just 50 microns across, taking about eight hours per page side.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2013
• Rebers spent most of 2017 working through a binder of tenor arias to see which would fit him.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
• Sometimes they are asked to name the opera from which a familiar-sounding melody of an aria has been taken.
  — James Barron, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
• The arias didn’t quite land, to judge by the polite but not thrilled reactions of the children sitting near me.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 5 May 2023
• Your new album starts with a famous Mozart aria written for a woman who is playing a man.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022
• The aria ends with an off-stage choir chanting Psalm 104 in Hebrew.
  — Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
• And just as Florencia will never find her Cristóbal, the aria never finds its heart.
  — Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
• The Giulia pulls away from stoplights with zeal while singing soaring Italian arias.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 3 Mar. 2023
• If the Fat Lady’s about to sing, Drew Brees isn’t hanging for the aria.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• Zachary Wilder, the tenor, was effective as the Evangelist, less so in his arias.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• The future of opera may depend less on who sings the next great aria than on who feels invited to stay after the curtain falls.
  — Helmut Paul, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• These chimes, made of ash wood and tuned to an Italian aria, produce a wonderful sound that can be enjoyed by all.
  — Liv Birdsall, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
• This is done with Taub’s sheer skills with the song styles varying from strong recitatives to insightful arias and battle cries.
  — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
• My spirit was trembling with a sort of Viking sublime, a Wagner aria of the soul.
  — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
• Breathe life into a song, belt out arias and jazz standards in half a dozen languages, enriching themselves and the lives of all who hear them.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• About halfway through the first part of the aria, Teicher stepped onto the platform and silently spun.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
• French opera at the end of the 17th century had not yet become codified with recitatives and arias.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023