songlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for songlike
Adjective
  • There has been less research into the link between the stomach’s inherent rhythmic activity and mental well-being.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Kind of like the Olympics’ team rhythmic gymnastics but with better throwing and balancing stunts.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Jeanette Winterson, The Passion Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this lyrical novel follows a French soldier who cooks for Napoleon and a Venetian woman who steals hearts—sometimes literally.
    Mark Nevins, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Despite the lyrical intensity, Offset is fine with the aftermath of it all.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Irrational violence and lyric visions erupt in lacerating, supremely elegant prose that’s also genuinely funny at times.
    Jon Raymond August 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Starting with singer Michael Hutchence, all the band members held up and subsequently dropped lyric cards in sequence.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2025
Adjective
  • In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.
    Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 25 June 2022
Adjective
  • Wales, meanwhile, sings in slate and soul—its valleys dotted with woolly sheep and echoed by the lilting notes of male voice choirs drifting from chapel doors.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Director Noelle Marion keeps the laughs flowing in this lilting production, which is well-cast, nicely sung and stunningly costumed by Elisa Benzoni.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • His own timbre of a voice mixes well with his multiple harmonic partners and the various goofy turns he is tasked with implementing.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Offerings range from massages and facials to sound meditation, a restorative practice that uses harmonic frequencies to quiet the mind and support nervous system regulation.
    Paula Conway, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • On orchestral tracks, like the opening scene from John Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary, the drivers offer strong low-frequency response in ULT 1 mode and absurdly bass-heavy response in ULT 2 mode.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Aug. 2025
  • And there’ll be a two-CD set that includes a mixture of the orchestral versions, demos, rarities, and remixes featured on the Anthology vinyl edition.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
  • The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.
    Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
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“Songlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songlike. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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