How to Use elevator music in a Sentence

elevator music

noun

• In the first episode, Dr. Johnny Fever announces the station’s changeover from elevator music to rock ’n roll with a record scratch and a proclamation.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 30 Jan. 2022
• The walls of the elevators are plastered with old records, records, and 80s tunes replace the usual elevator music.
  — Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2021
• In the same way that elevator music is meant to be heard, but not listened to, the halo around this fragrance is subtle and soft, to be passively noticed.
  — Shannon Barbour, The Cut, 7 Mar. 2018
• The only open business was, bizarrely, a suitcase store, lights bright and elevator music echoing.
  — Laura Van Den Berg, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Mar. 2021
• But no one wants to wait on hold, listening to elevator music while trying to resolve an issue or process a return.
  — Shama Hyder, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• Don’t make elevator music, don’t make a generic country song.
  — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• The company bought Muzak, known for its elevator music, from bankruptcy in 2011.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 24 Dec. 2019
• As easy listening as elevator music, as undistracting as the glass in your windows.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2020
• Many of the records Ms. Gabriel made fit into a category often marginalized as elevator music.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Angry white male entitlement is the elevator music of our age.
  — Laurie Penny, Longreads, 12 July 2018
• Marcloid has replaced them with the kind of peaceful, harmonious background noise of elevator music or updates on the Weather Channel.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• When something is public, whether a movie, a billboard, or elevator music or a Confederate flag on a pickup truck, there can be an openness, an essence of freedom and nakedness to confront or inspire the issue of the day or the past.
  — Prince Shakur, Teen Vogue, 30 Oct. 2017
• On Twitter, Elon Musk recently said that the cars will be able to emit elevator music through external speakers which were designed for pedestrian warning sounds.
  — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, 31 July 2020
• Outside of the camera, other new software features include Hold for Me, which has Google Assistant monitor a phone call and send an alert when you've been taken off hold (no need to listen to elevator music again).
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 30 Sep. 2020
• Even if some strayed dangerously close to elevator music.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2021
• But since the first Governor Edwards finished his final term in 1996, voters have opted for something like political elevator music, choosing instead governors that ranged from the technocratic to the mildly boring.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 15 July 2019
• Matt Kaulig, executive chairman and owner of Kaulig Companies, ensures his office lobby plays techno music as an upbeat alternative to elevator music.
  — Vicki Salemi, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Realists sniff at Jukedeck, Amper and similar AI creations, rightly characterizing the current offerings as customized, affordable 21st century elevator music.
  — James Sammataro, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024