songlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for songlike
Adjective
  • The union results in a colorful, rhythmic and festive song that celebrates the spirit of Santa Marta and that city, the oldest in Colombia, on its 500th anniversary.
    Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Daniel Jones’ success is becoming less of a novelty and more of a logical endpoint in Shane Steichen’s rhythmic system.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Shot with both lyrical intimacy and bursts of vibrant energy, the film portrays the quiet revolution of a boy refusing to surrender his identity.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl, has inspired a myriad of hot takes, from fan infighting over whether the album is or isn’t her best work to deep analysis of her alleged lyrical digs at fellow pop star Charli XCX and producer Scott Borchetta.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The lyric change comes after TMZ reported there might already be another woman in Urban’s life.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The 89-minute film also featured the pop superstar giving descriptions of each song before lyric videos for the new tracks.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • 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
Adjective
  • With lilting cadences, the king shares the origin myth of his Nkangala people, that a small elephant shed its skin while bathing in the river and a woman emerged, who married and procreated with his ancestors.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Loved seeing Rose Byrne turn on the lilting American accent for her impression of the hostesses at La Cienega Haciendas.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The effect is of a double weave of associations, a harmonic convergence.
    David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
  • What matters is the cumulative buzz, the sense of harmonic slippage — the graininess in what looks, on paper, like a simple major chord.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The band’s subsequent project, 1966’s Days of Future Passed, was one of the first instances of a concept album — tracking 24 hours of an everyman’s life — and an early touchstone of prog rock with its lush orchestral sound.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Lodge was a pivotal force behind the group’s groundbreaking fusion of orchestral rock and psychedelia.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Similarly, the dozens of people whom Greaves interviews in the film aren’t delivering a single and univocal history of the Harlem Renaissance but a polyphonic transmission of it.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women.
    Jane Ciabattari September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Songlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songlike. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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