How to Use tunesmith in a Sentence

tunesmith

noun

• And in the end, even the tunesmith can be overruled songwise.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• As a tunesmith, the nonpareil melodist Bacharach found fame in every medium.
  — Chris Morris, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
• Tin Pan Alley’s tunesmiths filled the nation’s hearts with songs still sung in Manhattan’s jazz clubs and fueled the city’s swank night life.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
• Though the hit did raise McClinton’s fortunes as a tunesmith, the record business remained a crapshoot.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2018
• Costello was a Beatles-esque tunesmith in the era of punk and post-punk, or snarling attitudes and clipped, tight guitar sounds.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 12 July 2019
• Next up to be celebrated was Don Schlitz, one of Nashville’s most successful tunesmiths of all time.
  — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2017
• Back in England, John was a skilled, hardworking piano player and tunesmith who had tried for years to gain a foothold in the business, with middling results.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• In Tedder, OneRepublic boasts one of the most successful tunesmiths in pop music.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• In Tedder, OneRepublic boasts one of the most successful tunesmiths in pop music.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The part-time tunesmith's worst proposals play out on Capitol Hill, where the Utah lawmaker is known as Hollywood's best buddy.
  — Jeff Howe, WIRED, 1 Oct. 2004
• Essentially unknown at the time, the composer put himself on the map with his work on the first entry and he's been one of the busiest soundtrack tunesmiths in Hollywood ever since.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2018
• Waiflike Scottish tunesmith Donovan is preparing to introduce a line of condiments known as Seasonings of the Witch.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• The Nashville-via-Muscle Shoals tunesmith started out as an overweight outcast in rural Alabama.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 9 Apr. 2023
• As is detailed in a booklet Mehr penned for the box set, the 30-year-old tunesmith had started incorporating more allegory and other literary techniques in his tunes.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Mr. White, who had formative experience in the vanguard of African-American art music, brought the full spectrum of those interests to the table as a tunesmith, bandleader, producer and singer.
  — Nate Chinen, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2016
• That said, Martin y Soler was a skilled tunesmith, as evidenced by several involving arias that owe much to the vocal and comical skills of the production’s impressive eight-person cast.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2017
• Top-tier Texas tunesmith still touring behind his superb, sharply observed 2015 collection of character studies, Complicated Game.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Schubert, of course, is the most natural tunesmith, his vocal lines alternately caressing, declaiming and recoiling from the words’ images and emotional implications.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
• Enter Diane Warren, professional movie tunesmith and perpetual Oscar nominee.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024