How to Use for a song in a Sentence
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Love for a song about the worst parts of yourself grows on your heart like a burn on the skin.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
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That means the whole family can take a group lesson for a song of a price.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
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So that’s what makes my job easy when the director asks for options for a song.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
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Adults also went door-to-door asking for food and drinks in exchange for a song or dance.
—CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
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Mazin was looking for a song for the two characters to connect over.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
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Why does Taupin get a credit for a song with nonexistent lyrics?
—Shana Naomi Krochmal, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
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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
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The lusher sound of vibrato just would have sounded off for a song about solitude.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
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Snagging one of your favorites for a song is one of the best parts of this shopping holiday.
—Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
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This award is for a song's composition and goes to its songwriters.
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
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Those are solid weekly totals for a song nearly 30 years old.
—Xander Zellner, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2025
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That’s an incredible placement for a song that has now spent 66 weeks on the list.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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Reznor and Ross have received three Oscar nods for their scores, but this would be their first for a song.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2025
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Musk has argued that right of way could be had for a song by building alongside existing power lines.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2015
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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
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She's usually nominated for a song in a movie that nobody has seen.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 June 2022
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When TikTok songs become big, one influencer just has an idea for a song.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
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That’s an impressive position for a song that has now spent 39 frames on the tally.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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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
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Patrón and you are teaming up for a song based on the sound of a Patrón bottle uncorking.
—Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
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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
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During that recession, private equity firms bought up housing for a song and upped the rent.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
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Talk about a strange life for a song, to have such radically different arrangements be hits.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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There is a precedent for a song that wasn’t a top 30 hit being voted Song of the Summer.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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In 2017, Isbell popped onstage for a song when the band played Nashville.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2025
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These three components are essential for a song to work properly in a Zumba class.
—Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2026
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The production bordered on method acting; for a song about fire, Wilson wore a fire helmet in the studio.
—CBS News, 11 June 2025
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