ballad

Example Sentences

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“I was desperate for something up-tempo,” she says, given that virtually everything she’d dropped so far had been a ballad.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

For bands such as Styx, commercial success arrived in the form of a ballad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Even romantic ballad Coming Up Roses ends with a sense of unease.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

“Fight or Fall” is a gorgeous midtempo ballad urging unity among men, and “Cowboy Song” looks at the lonely independence of a rodeo bronco-buster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

As she talked, she bobbed her head back and forth to the MTV music, even though the song was the kind of manufactured pop ballad she professed to hate.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green