How to Use folk song in a Sentence

folk song

noun

• The rock & roll and the standards, the dancing, the folk songs.
  — Elysa Gardner, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
• The group of three male singers will sing classic 1960s folk songs.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
• It was designed to sound like a folk song that would be sung in the future.
  — Vulture, 17 July 2023
• The paintings were spare and haunting, like folk songs.
  — Sasha Weiss, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• But few of us would dare sing an aria in public, or even a folk song.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
• It is based on a Swedish folk song and has rap influences.
  — Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
• Before anyone speaks, a folk song is sung and a maid sleeps at her sewing.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• Blunt's greatest challenge came in singing the Irish folk song that gives the film its title.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• Arte would do double talk, like a folk song in Italian.
  — Marc Freeman, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
• So there’s a song in Cold War that evolves over time — a folk song that comes to be very meaningful to the story.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• Instead, the Sami sing folk songs around a roaring fire and race reindeer in the snow.
  — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024
• McGuinn performed the song often as a youth, singing folk songs in coffee shops.
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 5 June 2018
• Nine of the 10 tracks were based on traditional folk songs.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
• This is a highly covered folk song from the ’60s but none of the covers beat the original.
  — Jude Zhu, Billboard, 15 June 2022
• Hymns and folk songs are sung a cappella by men and women.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 4 Oct. 2017
• The setting for the recording of the song befits the folk song, with its campfire harmonies and romantic sway.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2021
• The alternative folk song -- her words – is one of 11 songs set for the album Wilted, due out Nov. 13.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2020
• The track is based on a folk song recorded several years ago among villagers in central Ukraine, to which the band added drums and synths.
  — Daria Mitiuk Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 5 June 2024
• My task was to write a Colombian folk song that feels like it’s always existed.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2022
• But on the outskirts of the capital, a Manipuri folk song emanates from a schoolhouse.
  — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
• On the bus back to the Athletes’ Village, Sieng’s fellow athletes no longer sang cheerful folk songs.
  — Lauren Decicca, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
• The fairy folk song that goes with this episode is also one that doesn’t grate too much after hearing it over a hundred times.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
• When Bea brings home a man, Erica sings Dutch folk songs outside the bedroom.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
• Whenever there’s a pause in the action, a folk song will occupy our time.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• One paper-cut depicts a line from a northern Shaanxi folk song about parting lovers.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
• The Hold Steady recorded the cover of the song, which is a popular folk song in the fictional Westeros.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• Adams’ thrilling choruses are among the opera’s highlights and include his inimitable own take on folk song.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• The mystery man quickly became a legend, the subject of folk songs, books and a hit Hollywood movie.
  — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 4 Jan. 2018
• Hundreds of people in Cincinnati sang folk songs and put on one final show for their friend, Jerry Springer.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 9 June 2023
• But the boxed set reveals the verse melody actually started as a morose John Lennon folk song.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024