ballads
- plural of ballad.
Example Sentences
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The distinctive jazz vocalist teams with the Metropole Orkest and arranger Darcy James Argue on an album of expressively rendered ballads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The early ballads about his saga were “grotesque and brutal,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Born in June 1943 in Pannaipuram, Tamil Nadu, as R Gnanathesikan, Ilaiyaraaja was raised on the folk songs and ballads sung by his father, a cardamom estate supervisor.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
On the last Unusual Tuesday of April, Zabaglio performed soft electric-indie ballads to a roar of applause as the first act of the night.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Alex listened to one song, then another, a third, and a fourth—treacly ballads, the kind Bri liked.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
