music box
Example Sentences
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The show opened with Rosalía portraying a music box ballerina, her movements restricted, with dancers required to carry her across the stage.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Aficionados will delight in minor details such as being close enough to touch the ghoulish monkey music box from the original, and being within breathing distance of the performers in these famous roles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Our next stop was Culver City, where he gave me a music box that played “Edelweiss.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024
For decades, researchers considered mouse songs instinctual, the fixed tunes of a windup music box, rather than the mutable expressions of individual minds.
From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2023
Then she stood and took from the washstand beside the bed a little square-shaped object, a music box painted with roses and lilies of the valley.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
