songlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for songlike
Adjective
  • If Byrne’s approach recalls that of Colors, Beck’s 2017 pop turn with Greg Kurstin, the touch here is lighter, with the multicultural rhythmic and melodic surprises that always brighten Byrne’s solo work.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Breathwork Detox builds on this simplicity by guiding teams through rhythmic breathing patterns designed to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, often called the body's rest-and-digest mode.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The original track fuses rock with hip-hop and its lyrical content is about winning big and having team pride.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Despite its tone of lyrical defiance, Hard Headed Woman has its tender moments.
    Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The lyric change brought immediate screams inside Estadio River Plate and across the Swift world.
    Doha Madani, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 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
  • But Dunne’s voice, lilting and keening, is rich with empathy.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Nicholas Brittell delivers a lilting musical score.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The harmonic effort has earned the SNL alumna an Emmy nomination, alongside song co-writers Greenbaum and Sean Douglas.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • But, with teams of AIs, leaders are more like orchestral conductors.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • An orchestral version of the album by Rachel Fuller, recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is the backdrop for the dance.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Zivix reports that its algorithms can register complex playing techniques like polyphonic bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping and muting.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
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“Songlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songlike. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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