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
There, in the Morris Museum’s collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, is a music box from around 1877.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
One features a character giving himself a shave, the daily task treated as if it’s a delicate dance atop a music box.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023
She reached distractedly into the pocket of her skirt and took out the music box and, without thinking, twisted the winding key with trembling fingers.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
