Example Sentences

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He was brainy and clever and had a way of saying my name that sounded songlike in concert with his shy smile.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024

The routine, slightly less than six minutes long, is songlike in structure—after each cluster of two or three jokes, Mac yells “Kick it!” and a snippet of cheesy, drum-heavy hip-hop plays.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Laubrock, whose creative independence took off after her move to New York, has acquired a new certainty about mingling the songlike phrasing of her earlier years with her Evan Parker-influenced recent past.

From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013

Mr. Brötzmann responded with a stretch of unusually songlike playing, one long tone after another, before resuming his eruptive norm.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2011

“Don’t come any closer, son,” she said, and her voice was still intact, just as he remembered it, the healthy, songlike voice of a young girl.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende