How to Use for a song in a Sentence
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Catch her in a new music video for a song from the film.
—Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
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The first germ of an idea for a song is usually the best.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
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Love for a song about the worst parts of yourself grows on your heart like a burn on the skin.
—Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
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So that’s what makes my job easy when the director asks for options for a song.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
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Adults also went door-to-door asking for food and drinks in exchange for a song or dance.
—CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
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Mazin was looking for a song for the two characters to connect over.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
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Matthew had been looking for a song that was Elly’s trigger.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
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In 2014, two of its lawyers appeared in a video for a song with lyrics that called for killing police officers.
—Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
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Snagging one of your favorites for a song is one of the best parts of this shopping holiday.
—Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
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He’s also joined onstage for a song with bawdy country singer Trey Lewis.
—Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
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Some other thrifty person will pick them up for a song and spend some money at Home Depot to paint them.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
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The lusher sound of vibrato just would have sounded off for a song about solitude.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
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The song featured a black and white music video and smashed the records for most streams for a song in both a day and a week on Spotify and Amazon Music.
—Brittany Natale, Redbook, 11 May 2023
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The song featured a black and white music video and smashed the records for most streams for a song in both a day and a week on Spotify and Amazon Music.
—Brittany Natale, Redbook, 11 May 2023
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Not bad for a song hatched on JVKE’s laptop and brought to life by a wholesome reunion with his piano teacher.
—Mike Wass, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
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Last week, Harry Styles set the high-water mark for weekly streams for a song in 2022 — and just one week later, that record has fallen.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
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When TikTok songs become big, one influencer just has an idea for a song.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
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Method Man hammered home a lot of stuff on cadence and delivery, which is important for a song.
—William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
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Musk has argued that right of way could be had for a song by building alongside existing power lines.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2015
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And, fitting for a song about pulling yourself together to perform onstage night after night, the video is full of backstage footage from the Eras Tour.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
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One exception was made for a song that didn’t originally top Billboard charts but hit #1 on the U.K. singles chart.
—cleveland, 30 July 2022
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The Warriors already missed out on Dejounte Murray this offseason — he was had for a song by the Pelicans.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
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During that recession, private equity firms bought up housing for a song and upped the rent.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
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There might be a good idea for a song somewhere, but hearing Fido in your speakers gets more than a little bit distracting.
—Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022
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Even for something as left-field as a Chevrolet Express conversion van, a low-mileage example like this won't be had for a song.
—Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2023
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She's usually nominated for a song in a movie that nobody has seen.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 June 2022
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Talk about a strange life for a song, to have such radically different arrangements be hits.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
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An apt interpolation for a song about claiming what’s yours.
—Vulture, 9 Dec. 2022
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The museum operators clearly didn’t know its history and sold it for a song, Busha said.
—Alan Miller, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
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The left turn scans as triumphant — not just for Bain’s emotional recovery, but for a song that blooms into a singular statement.
—Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2023
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