melodies

Example Sentences

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The lights go down and the orchestra weaves between the steady thump of his beats and vivid melodies, as shadow-like projections are beamed onto a huge circular curtain draped above him.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

“Michael” is bizarre because everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of his greatest hits, like toxic ooze leaking out from the middle of two slices of Wonderbread.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

The way that we pieced the song together was that I did a couple passes on it melody-wise, then he wrote to my melodies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Changes unfold quickly, and the melodies are dynamic in a way that recalls musical theater—overlapping sections suggest a narrative progression even when the words are difficult to follow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Human characters such as the twelve princesses, or Prince Ivan Tsarevitch, were given folk-song-derived melodies based on the common Western musical scale.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall