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as in melody
a rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effect whistle a song as accompaniment to your work

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as in poetry
writing that uses rhythm, vivid language, and often rhyme to provoke an emotional response a hero honored in song and story

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Recent Examples of song The song incorporates music, spoken word, clips of a Vietnamese woman crying out for her son, and the sound of air raid sirens. Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025 Their roster features major players from both genres scenes, including Knocked Loose, State Champs, Less Than Jake, Senses Fail, and The Story So Far, who are named after a classic New Found Glory song. Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2025 The game looks and sounds like a movie in every regard, from its opening song to the lighting choices and angles, and the way the characters move through the world. Richard Newby, Time, 29 Apr. 2025 Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. Lawrence Burney, Pitchfork, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for song
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Noun
  • Anyone who has spent time online recently has likely come across Ordinary, the ballad by Alex Warren that has been soundtracking romantic videos and emotional content everywhere.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In a poll published Friday (April 18) on Billboard, music fans chose the alt-pop icon’s gorgeous new ballad as their favorite new release of the past week.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • The title, from a poem by the Tohono O’odham linguist Ofelia Zepeda, clings like juniper on skin.
    Petala Ironcloud, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Wilson began the performance by playing the song’s familiar melody on his guitar before wrapping the anthem in baritone vocal notes.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • When the melody feels right and is looping in my mind, or playing and singing dummy vocals over and over, certain words start to appear.
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Edwards was credited by NBA.com with 12 potential assists in Game 4, and throughout this four-game series, he's totaled just 23 dimes (5.8 per game) on 41 total potential assists per game (10.25 potential assists per game).
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Conservatives have long targeted public broadcasting for spending cuts, seeing it as a bastion of left-wing thinking that is sent over the airwaves on the taxpayer’s dime.
    Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the poetry of Donne and his contemporaries, the speaker of the poem is almost always a man, with women as implicit audience and explicit objects of desire.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Unique voices, unique perspectives Of course, there are countless autistic people who write poetry who aren’t famous and haven’t published books.
    Bradley J. Irish, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Listen a little more closely, however, and the lyrics often veer toward tales of dystopia and doomed love and mortality.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Steel denied that Williams’s lyrics were proof of crimes.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Vatican released a book of celebration on its website for the event, containing prayers and hymns.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Also on the schedule for the Wednesday night event were hymns from the Marine Corps Band and singer Charles Billingsley was to perform Christian opera, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The ad ends with Hardin being serenaded to the famous Chili's Baby Back Ribs jingle.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In recent years, brands have gone beyond simple jingles.
    Hala Mustafa, Billboard, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/song. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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