How to Use ditty in a Sentence

ditty

noun

• Play us a little ditty.
• This feel-good, synth-bumping ditty will have you up on your feet in no time.
  — Paris Close, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2017
• All the more reason to keep this bouncy ditty on loop.
  — Adelle Platon, VIBE.com, 27 Apr. 2026
• Vile spends his time alone noodling blues riffs; Barnett comes up with ditties off news headlines.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• This was the height of grunge, and then along comes Weezer with this nerdy little pop-punk ditty.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
• If Cupid can’t do the trick, play this ditty from The Ronettes to shoot your shot.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
• What's a Timberlake show without a little ditty from his boy band days?
  — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Sparkling water lightens it, but play around with the ratios—and write your own ditty to remember the recipe.
  — Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
• Remember that classic campfire ditty, The worms crawl in the worms crawl out/the worms play pinochle on your snout?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2019
• That all changed one night in 2019, all because of a ditty from a Disney movie.
  — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• While the actress always has a good story up her sleeve (bowel movements and all), this little ditty takes the cake.
  — Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 19 Dec. 2013
• The best way to experience the forgettable ditty is to dive in headfirst.
  — Christie D’zurillastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• And among it, all was a near-constant request — for the couple to make the ditty into a genuine, streamable song.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• For Foster, the ultra-polished ditty was in a sense business as usual.
  — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Time and cultural changes wrecked the once-glorious wittiness of the dirty ditty.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• Shepherds could not pipe a ditty on them, and poets could not use them as metaphors for the unsubstantiality of life.
  — The Economist, 31 Dec. 2019
• Indeed, Coupe's on-air ditty had sparked plenty of blowback by Tuesday.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 1 May 2018
• In the streaming music world, having access to all your favorite tunes and ditties is integral.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026
• The ones who are in the street attacking Israel and chanting mindless ditties about the virtues of Hamas.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
• And what better song to attach a needle to an eye dropper to (while cooking in the base of a crushed soda can) than this happy lil’ ditty.
  — Henry Everingham, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2024
• In between scenes, a podcast plays – a nice extra ditty in the headphones as the audience walks from one location to the next.
  — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2025
• The Standells may have made more than a few bucks from a little ditty about the Charles River’s pollution.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• About the last thing to be expected from a songwriter as moody and intense as Lorde was a carefree ditty about fun in the summer sun.
  — John Mayer, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• In the Strand, in Georgian London, the big-haired prostitutes grind their hips and sing ditties about their trade.
  — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
• There’s a little ditty that Texas Christian football fans have been yelling for the better part of the last century.
  — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
• Swift co-wrote the ditty with Del Rey and Antonoff (who also co-wrote 10 other songs on the album).
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Themes of community and sacrifice abound, as do bluegrass ditties penned by Paul Williams.
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Nov. 2025
• Everyone has heard of Lizzie Borden, who, according to the ditty, took an ax and smote her parents with four-score-and-one whacks.
  — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• She’s best known for her enthusiastic and approachable ditties on key subjects, like potty training.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
• These plinking, whimsical ditties—each song lasts but a minute or two at most— are evocative in their simplicity, but deceptively rich in texture.
  — Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026