singsong

Example Sentences

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“Of course I have bragging rights,” she said in a singsong tone after the game.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

He is so many stages beyond the phase of life when I would speak to him in a singsong voice about patchwork elephants that it is laughable even to think of it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

A rabbi led a singsong chant calling for “no more war” and “cease-fire now” and offered a prayer for peace in Hebrew and English.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2024

The Frankenstein patchwork of his face has echoes of Alasdair Gray's chiselled artwork and he uses the same gentle accent and singsong voice as Gray himself.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

He turned to Adam and said in poetic singsong, “ ‘Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.’

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck