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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Nikola Printz sings the title role, and the cast also includes Courtney Miller as Ruggiero, Shawnette Sulker as Morgana, and Sara Couden as Bradamante; Zachary Gordin is the director and Derek Tam conducts. —

Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 11 June 2026 It’s pressed French bread piled with bolo ham, shredded pork, aged prosciutto, Swiss and Spanish chorizo, a sandwich hybrid that sings. —

Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2026 Shania Twain sings for fans during an intimate show at The Shacklewell Arms in London on June 6. —

People Staff, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026 And Mick Jagger just announced that Smith sings back-up on the new Rolling Stones album, Foreign Tongues — probably the only thing the Stones album will have in common with Olivia’s. —

Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026 As Tracy Lawrence sings, South moves north, North moves south. —

Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 3 June 2026 At the sentence level, its craftsmanship sings; her prose is as lush and imbued with the miraculous as it is lived-in and inviting. —

Rachel Vorona Cote, Vulture, 2 June 2026 His older daughter, Dahlia, sings one of the songs from the musical. —

Mo Rocca, CBS News, 24 May 2026 The crowd sings the chorus in dissonant harmony. —

Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026

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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
The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2025