sing
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With barely a greeting to the rest of the musicians, he starts to sing, challenging their earsplitting guitars with his lacerating sneers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The remaining characters then sing an extremely brief ensemble vowing to resist the power of Rome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
During “La Noche,” an elegiac piano hymn about trying to find peace of mind, he shakily sings the hook, telling the audience, “I’m not the best singer, but I sing because I love life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Dating a drummer, she switched allegiance from Whitney Houston to Tom Waits and Tori Amos, but the urge to sing remained.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I’m glad I got to hear you sing and play the oud without a wall between us. You sing like a nightingale.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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At the Emmys on Monday, Reba McEntire sang a soulful tribute to Parton with a cover of her 1983 song “Appalachian Mountains,” one of McEntire’s all-time favorites.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
As Marzio sang his only aria, summoning Farnace to war, he changed his outfit, making Farnace hand him armor pieces like a servant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Just as Bernhard sang it over the opening of “Unzipped,” the same song scores the beginning of Mizrahi’s triumphant Fall/Winter 1995 presentation.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
But her composure slipped during the song Nowhere, Nobody, as she sang the line: "Hard to believe in a perfect ending."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Jack danced a jig and sang a song because he wanted to get home even more than he didn’t want to be rescued.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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While almost all of the words here scan well line by line, they don’t often build into something profound, and they never seem, from the outside, to be particularly personal to the guy singing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
It’s a deceptively simple title for a role that will soon have her spinning from hoops and being thrown high into the air — not to mention singing, dancing and acting alongside the ensemble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Some supporters tried to keep their spirits up by singing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
In another 2013 study, Swedish researchers found that singing has a biologically soothing effect, especially on cardiovascular function.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Despite their complaints, the twins are now transfixed by the ice cutters singing on the TV, so I tiptoe upstairs.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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In the second half at Easter Road on Thursday, with Hibs four goals to the good on the night and on their way to an aggregate victory, Gray's name was sung to the rafters.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
BTS is the first all-South Korean act to reign over Billboard's US top singles chart, which they achieved with their 2020 track "Dynamite", their first hit sung completely in English.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The booming rock ballad Don't Look Back in Anger also took on a greater significance after it was sung, impromptu, at a vigil for those who lost their lives in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It’s Raining Men” didn’t strike any ominous notes as sung by the Weather Girls in 1982, when the People’s Republic of China was just three years into its catastrophic one-child policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The beams may connect notes that are all in the same beat, or, in some vocal music, they may connect notes that are sung on the same text syllable.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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