music box
Example Sentences
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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
René opens the music box, and a tinkling music begins to play, the same song heard long ago in his Damascus sitting room.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 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
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
“That music box played a very particular tune,” the man in the yellow suit went on.
From "Tuck Everlasting" by Natalie Babbit
