How to Use music box in a Sentence

music box

noun
  • The songs play with simple notes like a small music box.
    Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 20 May 2021
  • The design looks more like an old-school music box, in fact.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Feel free to grab a hand-cranked music box to play a song as people use the machine.
    Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 2 June 2021
  • The first notes are alone on a piano, almost like a music box.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • This simple task was designed to test which of two pairs of blocks a child would pick to turn on the music box.
    Sarah White, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
  • Jubilee was named for the zoo’s baby chimp and had a music box in its tummy.
    WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • And the incorporation of a music box melody to add to the evocative lyrics?
    Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017
  • There’s a scene where Jimmy Page is sitting there with a music box.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The sound of a broken music box to my ears could be a crashing piano to someone else.
    Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
  • His hair has been worn thin after years of petting and moths, but his Swiss music box still works.
    WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • All of the music-making turns the Carter household into a full-size music box.
    James Bash | , oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The other two music boxes went to Bardeen and Brattain.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The display takes the idea of a ballerina from a music box and puts that into lanterns.
    Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • They were found with two small bags holding clothes, a towel, a flashlight, two phones and a music box.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
  • The music box allows users to make their own music by downloading an app and placing puffs on the back of the box.
    Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The music box your grandmother gave you, full of stinking mud.
    Hannah Cloke, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2019
  • This soft, jazzy track opens with a slow fade-in on Sejeong’s pretty vocals over a music box tune.
    Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Here’s a kalimba, an African thumb piano with metal tines that plink like a music box.
    Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The youngest child, Riley, is roaming around in a Grateful Dead T-shirt, playing with a music box.
    Tessa Love, Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2020
  • There was a winding mechanism for both the music box and the wheels that had a distinctive Schuco key.
    Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • His set opened with tones resembling a buzzy music box, with low rumbling drones.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Bring a bit of nostalgia to your house with an old-fashioned wooden music box.
    Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The tinny music in the music box is the theme from Swan Lake -- a ballet where the heroine is imprisoned in the body of a swan, stripped of her identity.
    Rena Gross, Billboard, 6 June 2018
  • If the waves of Zicatela were a full-size orchestra, the fountain shows in Las Vegas would be a dollar-store music box.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2021
  • These are like tiny music boxes that come in silver, two different shades of blue, and, for the fun of it, magenta.
    By Ellise Pierce photos By Ross Hailey, star-telegram, 6 Sep. 2017
  • And, like creating one of the most complicated watches, building the combs for the music box is no easy feat.
    Roberta Naas, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • Inspiration struck Prakash when his wife brought home a small hand-cranked music box, which pulled a ribbon with holes in it through two sets of pins.
    Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2014
  • In 1949 an engineer at Bell Labs built three music boxes to show off the new transistors.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, the fan regulators in the music box work similarly to those in a minute repeater.
    Roberta Naas, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • The sound of the police and fire scanner, which my parents relied on for stories, was my music box and my bedtime story.
    Katy Tur, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2017

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