ballad
Example Sentences
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Zardoya’s yearning for a love lost crescendoes, and is most devastating, in the piano ballad “Back to You”; but it seems as though even her darkest, most melancholic moments are touched by the fae.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s Keith—squeezing his life like a press, turning a brush with death into maybe the most beautiful ballad in rock ’n’ roll—that gives us hope.
On the opening song, “Luz de Luna,” he gushes about not wanting to miss someone over a heartfelt piano ballad that slips between punky guitar rifts and unpredictable 808 drums.
From Los Angeles Times
Guernsey singer Emily Fern wrote her twinkly Christmas ballad "quite accidentally" in a church hall.
From BBC
Ridge’s popular and widely translated work inspired folk tales, ballads and movies.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
