theme song
Example Sentences
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She kept the jukebox on the movie’s Academy Award-nominated theme song, “Calling You,” recorded by R&B singer Jevetta Steele and covered by Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, George Michael and others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
For “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” he leaps and twirls around the stage performing an interpretive dance to “Moon River,” the theme song from the movie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Beyond shifting from a multi-cam comedy to single-cam and Brandy’s changed-up theme song, this “Different World” succeeds by maintaining a wonderfully familiar energy… like coming back home.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
It was the theme song that Dolly Parton wrote for the 1980 movie 9 to 5 that fully propelled her to stardom.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
I got really bored, so I decided to pick a theme song!
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
