How to Use for a song in a Sentence

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  • Catch her in a new music video for a song from the film.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The first germ of an idea for a song is usually the best.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Love for a song about the worst parts of yourself grows on your heart like a burn on the skin.
    Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The track climbed to No. 17 on the U.K. charts — a rare feat for a song sung predominantly in French.
    Billboard France, Billboard, 23 Apr. 2025
  • So that’s what makes my job easy when the director asks for options for a song.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Adults also went door-to-door asking for food and drinks in exchange for a song or dance.
    CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Learning about theater is more than just hitting the right notes for a song or finding a mark on the stage.
    Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2025
  • Mazin was looking for a song for the two characters to connect over.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Why does Taupin get a credit for a song with nonexistent lyrics?
    Shana Naomi Krochmal, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
  • That’s an incredible placement for a song that has now spent 66 weeks on the list.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Matthew had been looking for a song that was Elly’s trigger.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In 2014, two of its lawyers appeared in a video for a song with lyrics that called for killing police officers.
    Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Snagging one of your favorites for a song is one of the best parts of this shopping holiday.
    Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
  • He’s also joined onstage for a song with bawdy country singer Trey Lewis.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Pat asks Denise to star in his new music video for a song that’s totally not about her but is about the woman who got away.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Some other thrifty person will pick them up for a song and spend some money at Home Depot to paint them.
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The lusher sound of vibrato just would have sounded off for a song about solitude.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
  • That’s an impressive position for a song that has now spent 39 frames on the tally.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The song featured a black and white music video and smashed the records for most streams for a song in both a day and a week on Spotify and Amazon Music.
    Brittany Natale, Redbook, 11 May 2023
  • The song featured a black and white music video and smashed the records for most streams for a song in both a day and a week on Spotify and Amazon Music.
    Brittany Natale, Redbook, 11 May 2023
  • Not bad for a song hatched on JVKE’s laptop and brought to life by a wholesome reunion with his piano teacher.
    Mike Wass, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Last week, Harry Styles set the high-water mark for weekly streams for a song in 2022 — and just one week later, that record has fallen.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
  • When TikTok songs become big, one influencer just has an idea for a song.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But now many of the impressive towers that make up that awe-inspiring cityscape are going for a song.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • This award is for a song's composition and goes to its songwriters.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The era of post-war elegance belonged to Greek shipowners who scooped up surplus wartime cargo fleet for a song.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The production bordered on method acting; for a song about fire, Wilson wore a fire helmet in the studio.
    CBS News, 11 June 2025
  • Method Man hammered home a lot of stuff on cadence and delivery, which is important for a song.
    William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Musk has argued that right of way could be had for a song by building alongside existing power lines.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2015
  • And, fitting for a song about pulling yourself together to perform onstage night after night, the video is full of backstage footage from the Eras Tour.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024

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