How to Use tuneful in a Sentence

tuneful

adjective

• The set is shiny, the mood upbeat, and the music is tuneful.
  — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2021
• The clock is just as rare, gorgeous, and tuneful now as then.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• The guitar strings are a tuneful addition to the mix as well.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 June 2022
• The tuneful score adds to the fun (though strangely for a children’s show, the overture is long enough to come from the golden age of Rodgers & Hammerstein).
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018
• The vigorous choral writing—both hymn-singing and mob frenzy—is static, and many of the arias are tuneful but shapeless.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• All during an era crowded with rock bands talented and tuneful enough to not just reach the mainstream, but shape it.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 July 2021
• The Bay Area is also losing a tuneful historical reminder of the important role that the East Bay played in the blues genre over the decades.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 13 July 2019
• And throughout his career, Wizkid has refined his sound to a tuneful tee.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
• These guys make loud, warm and tuneful rock about trying to get by when the outside world—or your interior voice—is telling you to stop.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
• The Jongen, a splashy, tuneful, Hollywood-meets-Brussels affair from 1926, has been on my wish list for years.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2020
• Her verses, sprung from grief so fresh, would be set to the music of a centuries-old hymn, merged into a tuneful prayer meant to comfort those who sing and hear it.
  — Kristin E. Holmes, The Seattle Times, 15 Dec. 2017
• The fact that most anyone can enjoy Monáe’s tuneful defiance is key.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2018
• For most people this record is merely a tuneful amalgam of easy chords and easier smiles.
  — Matt Giles, Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
• But ah, that tuneful Jule Styne-Bob Merrill score — not to mention the iconic overture, which still gives chills even if there aren’t dozens of musicians in the pit.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 24 Apr. 2022
• So much music from this period is not melodic and tuneful.
  — David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• Fortunately, Wilkinson brings the same skill set to the kids’ table that powers his more adult shows: Catchy rhythms, tuneful melodies and lyrics that keep the attention.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 25 May 2021
• Dulcet, melodious, and tuneful are just three of the adjectives that will never be applied to the GT’s soundtrack.
  — Greg Pajo, Car and Driver, 22 Jan. 2018
• Here’s hoping this show sticks to its angstier, less tuneful early work, rather than the later songs designed for everyone to hum along to.
  — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Nate Chinen, Stephen Holden and Elise Czajkowski, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
• At first, the light, tuneful pieces from 1860, rendered by Welser-Most with great spirit and expertise, seemed a charming but out-of-place curtain raiser.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
• The band forges a powerful hybrid of melody and mood, creating a tuneful lattice of sound that often lingers in the air rather than pushing forward.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 11 May 2018
• It’s on the verge of Neo romantic, very tuneful and melodic, whereas George Walker’s work is verging on atonal.
  — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Apr. 2022
• The quartet played flinty, tuneful indie rock with shades of Smashing Pumpkins and Pinback, leaning into a heavy wall of guitar as the crowd swelled at the Sonora stage.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2023
• The British band Yes was probably the biggest and most successful — and most tuneful — of prog practitioners.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• The Monkees’ on-screen chemistry and tuneful repertoire made the act an immediate hit when the show premiered in September 1966.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 10 Dec. 2021
• All with one of the most tuneful scores and a sweetly appealing cast of characters as audiences are likely to encounter.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 8 May 2017
• Cudi handles a tuneful hook teaming up with John Legend.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
• There's also a tuneful cameo on the track's bridge and chorus from an anonymous woman whose face is entirely covered, with the exception of her mouth and braids peering out of the back of a ski mask.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 18 May 2018
• The album demos, which captured a tuneful energy reminiscent of the original band, caught the ear of Little Steven Van Zandt.
  — Tristram Lozaw, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• His Story also features clever design elements and a cast of tuneful young performers, many from the area.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• Most of his serious concert music was amiable and tuneful, based on themes with an appealing folk-like innocence.
  — Allan Kozinn, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2024