How to Use song in a Sentence

song

noun
  • I could hear the song of a sparrow.
  • He sang a love song.
  • The song was playing on the radio.
  • The event was celebrated in song by a folk group.
  • At the end of the song, the two shared a hug as the crowd cheered them on.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
  • So some of these songs are from the last four or five years?
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Midway through the song, fake snow even fell across the stage.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
  • And, of course, the genre of song played at the Mos Eisley Cantina: jizz.
    Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Have a song stuck in your head but don't know who sings it?
    Emily Price, PCMAG, 26 May 2024
  • The act of that song is two guys bird hunting, but the song isn’t about that.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2024
  • None of the lyrics of the song at all felt like a good standout lyric to be the title.
    Charles Moss, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The first one was something about this Bruno Mars song.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That’s a trick Arthur uses to signal to her mind that the song is over.
    WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • The Atlanta rapper joined the singer one stage for the second to last song on the setlist.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • And how much were the original songs rewritten along the way?
    Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The song was still playing coming out of the break as Johnson went to the free-throw line.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • What were the first and last songs recorded for this album?
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2024
  • No doubt inspired by Ray and Saliers' shimmies at the start of the song, a few fans came down to the edge of the stage to dance.
    Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2024
  • For season three, Bareilles wrote the song that Dawn sings at the end of the group’s tour performance.
    Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The 60 by 96-inch piece, titled after the song, is made up of glass tiles on foam board.
    Zoe Ruffner Camille Sojit Pejcha Zoe Ruffner Kyle Beechey Osman Can Yerebakan Samuel Rutter, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • For their part, Smith shared a video of some of his dancers with a snippet of the song playing in the background.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • There was one song where pyro went off for the entire song.
    Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Plus, the parody song paired with the end credits is top notch.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The craft requires voice, but not song; movement, but not dance.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Nao played a song and asked Casella to identify the singer.
    Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Nao played a song and asked Ms. Casella to identify the singer.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The fourth and final country song to top the Hot 100 this year was, at last, a feel-good story.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Expect the song to be a highlight of her open-air concert here.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • The song is dedicated to Adu’s son, Izaak, a trans man.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024
  • But the actual song from start to finish is actually one take, with a rhythm section.
    Charles Moss, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2024

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