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Recent Examples of melodious Zambrano’s sweet, melodious voice is beautifully complemented by Noreh’s velvety tones. Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2025 People hurrying by spoke in melodious foreign languages. New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025 Music does in deed play a big role in the trailer, which shows off a rural Jim Crow Era South setting and sees Black people cutting loose in melodious and carnal celebration. Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025 Here's what to know about the city's annual melodious shindigs. Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 14 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for melodious
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Adjective
  • If Byrne’s approach recalls that of Colors, Beck’s 2017 pop turn with Greg Kurstin, the touch here is lighter, with the multicultural rhythmic and melodic surprises that always brighten Byrne’s solo work.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of it was animal sounds as opposed to melodic sounds.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Hollow Knight’s award-winning composer, Christopher Larkin, brings melancholy melodies, symphonic strings and heart-thumping, soul strumming boss themes to the adventure.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Two of Beck’s more introspective studio efforts, the albums stand as companion pieces and lie at the heart of this summer’s orchestral run, one which wrapped up last week in San Francisco, making up the bulk of the setlist during the symphonic outing.
    Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The original track fuses rock with hip-hop and its lyrical content is about winning big and having team pride.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Despite its tone of lyrical defiance, Hard Headed Woman has its tender moments.
    Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • An adaptation of the the Broadway show, director Bill Condon's musical drama stars Tonatiuh as a gay window dresser named Luis who shares a cell with political prisoner Valentin (Diego Luna).
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But an ensemble piece was what was needed for a musical about people from all walks of life, in all manner of places, coming together and being met with kindness.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The lyric change brought immediate screams inside Estadio River Plate and across the Swift world.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Joni Mitchell’s and Bruce Springsteen’s hits, for example, are simultaneously tuneful and rich with story.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • McKitrick’s razor-wire guitar and the powerful rhythm section of Williams and Brymer, along with Martin’s vocals and in-your face lyrics, combine for songs that are confrontational, tumultuous and tuneful.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • If Byrne’s approach recalls that of Colors, Beck’s 2017 pop turn with Greg Kurstin, the touch here is lighter, with the multicultural rhythmic and melodic surprises that always brighten Byrne’s solo work.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Breathwork Detox builds on this simplicity by guiding teams through rhythmic breathing patterns designed to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, often called the body's rest-and-digest mode.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025

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