How to Use earworm in a Sentence

earworm

noun

• Over the past few days, a song lodged in his head like an earworm.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
• One of the best ways to rid yourself of an earworm is to embrace it.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2021
• The catchy earworm is one of the most successful tracks of all time.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• The song has all the classic hallmarks of a catchy kids' earworm.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 7 Dec. 2020
• Swift and Martin know how to make earworms, that’s for sure.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
• By the second verse, the lyrics have become earworms.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
• The earworm of a theme song and classic scenes are etched into the very fiber of the park.
  — Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 14 July 2025
• The pounding bass, sharp synths, and intense beats are what make the song an earworm.
  — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• The two paired together well, bringing a new vibe to the earworm of a song.
  — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 10 July 2022
• Disney has added a new final verse to the earworm that plays throughout the ride.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
• Genuine earworms like this are fleeting here.
  — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 15 May 2026
• The sound is addictive—a sweet earworm with a come-hither twang.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2019
• Who knew the catchiest earworm of 2019 would come from a lute?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2020
• Yes, Tetris, the iconic puzzle video game with the earworm theme song.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• The harmonious, pop-funk earworms were butter against the heavy strain of the weights.
  — Heidi Pérez-Moreno, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• The show’s iconic theme song — an earworm if there ever were one — has never left my brain.
  — Eliot Glazer, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024
• Each new iteration of the meme helps the earworm grow inside your head.
  — Cameron Hickey, Wired, 3 Mar. 2021
• At the theme parks, a lot of the rides will load the hordes into boats that float through movie scenes or saddle you with an earworm.
  — Jim Webster, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
• The three-minute-plus earworm is more of a bombastic wakeup call than a nursery rhyme.
  — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
• Bad news for Harbour—each track is an absolute earworm.
  — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
• But by Monday, the children’s song—a frequent earworm—was no more.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
• The score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman sings and swings and is full of earworms.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 8 Sep. 2024
• In this section, the band introduces a brand new section that's a bit of an earworm thanks to the na-nas in the track.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 21 Aug. 2020
• Along with the chance to chill, there's a great big beautiful tomorrow earworm waiting for you.
  — Britt Kennerly, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• Complete with an emotive key change midway, the song is a joke, an earworm, and an indictment all at once.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
• Apparently, the best way to get an earworm out of your head is to listen to Rush, flush it all out.
  — Laura Martin, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
• Petras pulls her weight here as well, with her breathy vocals giving a classic Kylie vibe with the song’s earworm melody.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2024
• The show utilizes short, earworm-y musical hooks that act as an emotional first-aid kit for toddlers.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 3 June 2026
• That’s Aller’s cello evoking John Williams’ shark-scary earworm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
• The vocals are top-notch, nailing the licks and earworm choruses of the soundtrack stacked with hits from top to bottom.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2020