How to Use singsong in a Sentence

singsong

1 of 2 noun

• They spoke in a singsong.
• His singsong delivery was sampled in a song by the Dave Matthews Band.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• Passers-by spread word of his journey, posting videos showing his wispy beard and singsong speech.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• His love of singing brought joy to his life and those around him, from church choirs and minor league baseball games to Irish events and living room singsongs.
  — courant.com, 5 July 2018
• Varathana, a rake-thin man in his mid-thirties with a delicate, singsong voice, explained why.
  — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
• Propulsive beats and woozy synths fade in and out as the trio chant the titular chorus and deliver smooth singsong raps.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
• Mothers coo to their babies in a melodious singsong sometimes called motherese, a behavior that is unique to humans.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2010
• Tecca worked with the producing duo Internet Money, whose beats launched the careers of Juice Wrld, among others, to fashion his infectious singsong flow.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• For though the singsong lyrics could be understood by a 3-year-old, Johnsrud’s gentle melodic inflections and subtle turns of phrase took this music to a more meaningful level, no small feat.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Outside, an umbrella vendor trying to lure customers repeated a singsong, two-note chant, a narrow interval between G and the B above it.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2016
• With an effortless flow and singsong style reminiscent of Gucci Mane at his peak, the East Atlanta rapper croaks melodic bars about the peril and pleasure of the street life over hypnotic beats that smash video game synthesizers into 808 bass.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Her mother was tattooing eyebrows in Incheon when a client, overhearing Yoo’s singsong greeting, observed that her voice had a perfect traditional timbre.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Mountain gorillas exhibit dozens of vocalizations, and Bauma is always vocalizing with Ndakasi in singsong and grunts and the rumbling belches that signal contentment and safety.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• Embodying ragtag park denizens, Mannes students meticulously captured Ashley’s singsong, half-speaking style and his deadpan ruefulness.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
• Mashing together slang, jargon, pressurized lyricism, erudition, and singsong, he was often seen to court impenetrability in his search to conjure emotional textures rather than solid ideas.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
• They spoke in a singsong.
• His singsong delivery was sampled in a song by the Dave Matthews Band.
  — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
• Passers-by spread word of his journey, posting videos showing his wispy beard and singsong speech.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• His love of singing brought joy to his life and those around him, from church choirs and minor league baseball games to Irish events and living room singsongs.
  — courant.com, 5 July 2018
• Varathana, a rake-thin man in his mid-thirties with a delicate, singsong voice, explained why.
  — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
• Propulsive beats and woozy synths fade in and out as the trio chant the titular chorus and deliver smooth singsong raps.
  — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
• Mothers coo to their babies in a melodious singsong sometimes called motherese, a behavior that is unique to humans.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2010
• Tecca worked with the producing duo Internet Money, whose beats launched the careers of Juice Wrld, among others, to fashion his infectious singsong flow.
  — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
• For though the singsong lyrics could be understood by a 3-year-old, Johnsrud’s gentle melodic inflections and subtle turns of phrase took this music to a more meaningful level, no small feat.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Outside, an umbrella vendor trying to lure customers repeated a singsong, two-note chant, a narrow interval between G and the B above it.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2016
• With an effortless flow and singsong style reminiscent of Gucci Mane at his peak, the East Atlanta rapper croaks melodic bars about the peril and pleasure of the street life over hypnotic beats that smash video game synthesizers into 808 bass.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023
• Her mother was tattooing eyebrows in Incheon when a client, overhearing Yoo’s singsong greeting, observed that her voice had a perfect traditional timbre.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Mountain gorillas exhibit dozens of vocalizations, and Bauma is always vocalizing with Ndakasi in singsong and grunts and the rumbling belches that signal contentment and safety.
  — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
• Embodying ragtag park denizens, Mannes students meticulously captured Ashley’s singsong, half-speaking style and his deadpan ruefulness.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
• Mashing together slang, jargon, pressurized lyricism, erudition, and singsong, he was often seen to court impenetrability in his search to conjure emotional textures rather than solid ideas.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017

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singsong

2 of 2 adjective

• Once the alarm sounds, the dog howls a singsong tune in response.
  — Fox News, 15 Sep. 2019
• Imogen turns back to her team, her voice an icy singsong.
  — Jen Spyra, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2021
• Where the daughter does that singsong thing in the mirror and the detective finds the old guy crying in the boathouse?
  — Sam Lipsyte, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Sanders cooed, teasing the quarterback in a singsong voice that would have sounded right at home in a middle-school lunch room.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 23 May 2017
• Certain of her poems could take on a singsong quality, like a child’s nursery rhyme.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Pretty Sophia, with her singsong voice and clear complexion and plaited yellow hair.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• Her songs turn mild rap cadences into singsong melodies, set to vamps that match guitar or piano chords with perky electronics.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• Many Americans are more familiar with Cantonese’s singsong cadences than the more clipped tones of Mandarin.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
• That’s especially true in Beane’s singsong dialogue, mostly rendered four feet to a line with a few extra left feet thrown in.
  — New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• The stars’ heavy Irish dialects are accurate and lifelike, often with a lilting, singsong quality.
  — Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• His music is trap-adjacent, bounce-heavy, and Auto-Tuned, and his nasally singsong voice intensifies into a snarl.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2022
• The singsong verse of the morality plays is countered by ribald cross talk delivered with naturalistic verve.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Lean and glittering in his Nudie suits (likely designed by the quietly iconic Manuel Cuevas), and two decades her elder, Wagoner became, in the singsong language of a country duet, the sometime father, sometime lover of his partner.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• The film’s special music is that of Dickinson’s poems, which are heard, throughout, in recitations by Nixon that catch the glint of raging inner furies looming deep within the poems’ plain surfaces and lullingly singsong hymnal rhythms.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2017
• The singsong, paired with darling illustrations and Sendak’s devil-may-care attitude winking from every page, is forever-enchanting stuff.
  — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2022
• Markéta, the shooting victim mourned by her waitress mother, makes ghostly visitations, her folkish, singsong melodies slicing through the prevailing density of Saariaho’s harmonic textures.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• The syncopated insult rhythms and singsong sermonizing trigger emotional responses.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021
• Once the alarm sounds, the dog howls a singsong tune in response.
  — Fox News, 15 Sep. 2019
• Imogen turns back to her team, her voice an icy singsong.
  — Jen Spyra, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2021
• Where the daughter does that singsong thing in the mirror and the detective finds the old guy crying in the boathouse?
  — Sam Lipsyte, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• Sanders cooed, teasing the quarterback in a singsong voice that would have sounded right at home in a middle-school lunch room.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 23 May 2017
• Certain of her poems could take on a singsong quality, like a child’s nursery rhyme.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Pretty Sophia, with her singsong voice and clear complexion and plaited yellow hair.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• Her songs turn mild rap cadences into singsong melodies, set to vamps that match guitar or piano chords with perky electronics.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
• Many Americans are more familiar with Cantonese’s singsong cadences than the more clipped tones of Mandarin.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
• That’s especially true in Beane’s singsong dialogue, mostly rendered four feet to a line with a few extra left feet thrown in.
  — New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• The stars’ heavy Irish dialects are accurate and lifelike, often with a lilting, singsong quality.
  — Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
• His music is trap-adjacent, bounce-heavy, and Auto-Tuned, and his nasally singsong voice intensifies into a snarl.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2022
• The singsong verse of the morality plays is countered by ribald cross talk delivered with naturalistic verve.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Lean and glittering in his Nudie suits (likely designed by the quietly iconic Manuel Cuevas), and two decades her elder, Wagoner became, in the singsong language of a country duet, the sometime father, sometime lover of his partner.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024