keening
Example Sentences
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The keening tenor part will be sung by Azi Schwartz, a cantor at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York; and Phillip Bullock will take the baritone part, influenced by traditional Black styles.
From New York Times
He heard musicians hitting keening, acrobatic notes, and high registers, each player a would-be Dizzy or Coltrane.
From New York Times
A woman once fell in love with a poem — a keening, a roaring — for a slain beloved.
From New York Times
Then as they approached, we heard: vocal harmonies holding, shifting, droning, keening; a shared sound of moving parts, in search of something but in no hurry to find it.
From New York Times
Women filled the courtyard of a small house, keening over a coffin draped in the national flag.
From Seattle Times
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