songstresses

plural of songstress

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for songstresses
Noun
  • There are other skalds, or griots, or troubadours devoted to the goings on in the Pembroke (and, later, Powell) home, and when the reruns hit the streamers our world grew.
    Sam Lipsyte, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • That exquisitely rare skill — the ability to arrange a handful of ordinary notes in a way that makes time stop and pulses quicken — unites long-anonymous troubadours, symphonists, Broadway entertainers, earnest singer-songwriters, griots, and ancient clerics.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In the Shadow of the Stars put the divas in the background to focus on the lives of 11 men and women choristers at the San Francisco opera house.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Songstresses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songstresses. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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