How to Use chorus in a Sentence

chorus

noun
  • We awoke to a chorus of birdsong.
  • The President's policies have been questioned by a growing chorus of critics.
  • The chorus echoed down the hall, in the visitors’ room.
    Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In the chorus there is a major shift in the the mood as there is some calm brought to the chaos.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The soloists, who also sang in the chorus, were a mixed bag.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 1 May 2023
  • The chorus is inspired by a Young Gleesh song from back in the day.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Styles, now 29, crooned the chorus as the rest of the band lulled harmonies to support him.
    Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
  • She was backed by a chorus of singers dressed in all black.
    Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Under the guise of counter-speech being free speech, the chorus rolled on.
    Justin Vallejo, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2023
  • One such video is a recent clip of BTS’ Jungkook singing the song’s chorus.
    Xander Zellner, Billboard, 7 June 2023
  • Or does the first and second chorus really have to be the same?
    Rose Eden, SPIN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • After a third warning, Mr. Rey left the ring to a chorus of boos.
    James Wagner Luis Antonio Rojas, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • By the end of the first chorus, people were laughing and cheering.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
  • The word juts out of Drake’s brooding chorus like a Freudian slip.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Singing a few bars from the pop song, the crowd excitedly joined in and belted out the rest of the chorus.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
  • The chorus is bright and catchy, a contrast from much of the 27-year-old artist’s more moody and somber offerings.
    Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The chorus orients the song in the waters of Defcee’s For All Debts…, where the power of a dollar loomed large.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Only at the end does a choir of background singers join in for a final chorus.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The chorus plays off a familiar trope, with a Kesha, twist, of course.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The duo then break into a sweet slow dance before the final chorus.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Animal lovers as well as deer hunters have joined the chorus.
    Soumya Karlamangla Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • An onslaught of spring rain, which delayed the start of the race, and the chorus of blaring yacht horns that signaled its end.
    Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Cohen played the song for less than one chorus’s worth of time, bopping along to it with (off-beat) full-body squats.
    Vulture, 27 June 2023
  • As the band started playing, Cooper, Combs, and the crowd sang the chorus of Combs’ mega-hit cover song.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 24 July 2023
  • Once the decision was made, Greenlaw ran off the field to the locker room to a chorus of boos from Eagles fans in the stands.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That same sense of forboding comes through in the chorus, which has a bit of rock muscle behind it.
    Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 1 May 2023
  • As the team charged down the field, a strange roar was building in the stands — the chorus of hundreds of cowbells swinging to and fro on the homecoming mums.
    Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Mid-song, Pink emerged from the audience to belt out the chorus and joined Clarkson onstage to sing the 2012 single as a duet.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The norteño-sax band from Chihuahua, Mexico paused their singing to hear the first chorus from the audience.
    Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2023
  • As fan footage from the event showcased, Jung Kook performed his summer hit, naming off the days of the week on the catchy chorus, flanked by a bevy of dancers.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023

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