How to Use song and dance in a Sentence
song and dance
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The goal is to teach kids lessons through song and dance.
— Sari Hitchins, Parents, 25 June 2024 -
Alas, the wheels start to come off early on the song and dance front.
— Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023 -
But the main attraction of Schemitzun are the displays of song and dance.
— Melanie Savage, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2021 -
The meaning of the song and dance has two versions, Leavitt said.
— Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022 -
Each outlandish episode is filled with wicked wit and even busts out with a bit of song and dance.
— Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024 -
George, on the other hand, has done this whole song and dance before.
— Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Sep. 2019 -
Dancing to the right tune What’s a ball without a little song and dance?
— Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024 -
The opening bit was a song and dance with a cabaret singer backed by a small band with a large horn section.
— Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 Aug. 2020 -
Put on your favorite song and dance, walk the dog on a slightly longer route, or go for a swim.
— Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021 -
Given the chance, Baumbach can’t help making a song and dance of things.
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022 -
Better yet, the best way to be fully absorbed in Krishna was through song and dance.
— Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022 -
Neil Patrick Harris, no stranger to Hollywood, the stage or a good soft shoe, opened the 2015 awards with a song and dance.
— Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022 -
Trump, a rapid-fire lie machine, did his usual song and dance.
— Oliver Darcy, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023 -
At the end of the assembly, the fourth- and fifth-graders who worked on the gun violence project performed their song and dance for the rest of the school.
— Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2018 -
The first image that the word ‘Bollywood’ conjures up is one of song and dance.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023 -
Dad came up in Boston politics and that can be a song and dance show.
— Fred Bronson, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2017 -
So this was more than the usual Bollywood song and dance.
— Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018 -
The film kicks off before the move west, with a song and dance through Manhattan as Evan sings about the angst of being 13.
— Carole Horst, Variety, 15 Aug. 2022 -
More than 800 cities will spend the day in song and dance on the streets and sidewalks, in parks and on plazas, and at major and not-so-major venues.
— Nyssa Kruse, courant.com, 18 June 2018 -
The viral song and dance sensation hits 30 cities over six weeks.
— Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 9 July 2019 -
That led to a high-energy song and dance that set a generic, slightly high-strung tone for the night.
— Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 10 June 2019 -
Take all the amazing things about the shows already on this list and then add breaking out into song and dance to it.
— Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 21 Feb. 2020 -
Legoland Summer Jam is a song and dance show featuring a brass band.
— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023 -
If that all sounds like generic plot devices tossed into a stew of song and dance, so what?
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021 -
The song and dance spectacular could make its way to screen in season 2.
— Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022 -
The children watched a video about feelings – and how to manage them – before the muppet led them in song and dance.
— NBC News, 17 Dec. 2020 -
Glee Take all the amazing things about the shows already on this list and then add breaking out into song and dance to it.
— Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2017 -
Take the concentration out of the camps / concentrate it on some song and dance.
— Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019 -
The story also includes a plot twist and a song and dance for children to follow along with.
— Yasmine Askari, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Mar. 2021 -
That night in the dining room, local women performed a traditional welcome song and dance.
— Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
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