fugue

Example Sentences

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Yet investors didn’t show the same anxiety once trading started, sending the indices into a sort of fugue state.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The chorus, in the old musical forms of canon and fugue, demands light.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

"This isn't where we're supposed to be," Tai told Van in Episode 5 after going into a fugue state and trying to kiss her.

From Salon • May 12, 2023

Ben, who didn’t partake and has now entered a fugue state, where he relives memories, or perhaps near-memories, of his time with an ex-boyfriend.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

He called his system ‘The Well-Tempered Keyboard’, landmarked for ever in history by his composing two companion pieces, a prelude and a fugue, for every one of the newly adapted key-families.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall