Thesaurus results for SINGS

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sing

as in chants

to produce musical sounds with the voice it's relatively rare to find actors who can also sing well

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as in intones

to utter in musical or drawn out tones the cantor sang the prayers before the entire congregation

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as in cries

to utter one's distinctive animal sound I can hear a bird singing in the distance

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cries
calls

as in informs

to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities once he saw the kind of jail time he was facing, the suspect was singing loud and clear to the police

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sings

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noun

plural of sing

as in jam sessions

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Recent Examples of sings

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Soprano Anna Thompson sings the role of the faithful Micaëla, and Mexican baritone Raúl Morales Velazco is the swaggering toreador Escamillo. — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 9 July 2026 The future of opera may depend less on who sings the next great aria than on who feels invited to stay after the curtain falls. — Helmut Paul, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026 Chaka Khan sings her heart out at HarbourView Equity Partners’ signature concert series, Las’ Set, in Cannes, France on June 25. — Brendan Le Updated, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026 Confidence in God as ever-present Love sings through the ages in this hymn. — Kit Cornell Kurtz, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2026 Her series are inevitably female-centric and like the Brontës, who wrote 200 years and a few miles away, her work excavates the drama of daily life and the tension between good and evil that sings below any surface. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026 Lavers is riding with the same crew as the first go-around, which includes his partner McGrory, who sings under the alias Colle, and the violinist Zachary Paul. — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026 That same evening, a Snapchat video recording in which Alannah purportedly sings along to a song that uses a racist slur emerged on platforms like X and TikTok. — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 22 June 2026 Plus, dynamic vocalist Melody Betts sings R&B and soul classics. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 17 June 2026

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The ballroom at the Westin Perimeter North is packed with people sporadically breaking out in Rick Jackson chants from time to time.

— Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 16 June 2026
As the crowd chants largely out of sight, heavy automatic gunfire can be heard for 15 uninterrupted seconds.

— Marin Scott, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026

Definition of chants

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Trump views it in zero-sum terms, as a thing the strong seize from the weak—a view that informs his constant desire to steal natural resources from smaller countries.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
This was my strategy throughout the book and informs my citational practices as well.

— Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 July 2026

Definition of informs

Noun

One is Enrico Lopez-Yanez, Class of 2007, a pops conductor formerly with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra who now has stints with the Detroit, Dallas and Pacific symphonies.

— Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
This year’s guest conductor was Stuart Chafetz, principal pops conductor of the Columbus Symphony, and the Chautauqua and Marin symphonies.

— Emily Curiel May 24, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2026

Definition of symphonies

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The clip, filmed from a few feet away, shows the saxophone player continuing unfazed as the Dalmatian raises its snout and vocalizes in rhythm.

— Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
As the sweetly melodic ballad tapers, a gentle beat kicks in and Carey vocalizes words of religious praise over a syncopated coda for the last two minutes, her five-octave voice punctuating her patented melismatic style.

— Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025