half-sung
- a word derived from sung.
Example Sentences
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Durk’s Auto-Tuned, half-rapped, half-sung delivery meshed seamlessly as hip-hop turned more melodic in the early 2010s; he rode that formula to success on 2013’s “Dis Ain’t What U Want,” his national breakthrough.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023
I can appreciate how frustrating it must be to have your partner suddenly switch to half-sung, half-spoken baby talk for several hours each week.
From Slate • May 13, 2021
He remembers first playing “My Dear One” — a near-waltz about the comfort of companionship, half-sung and half-whispered like a sunrise confessional — for her on their bed.
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2020
The six-time Grammy winner opened his 75-minute set with the thudding bass of “Lose Myself,” helping set the tone for McKeehan’s half-sung, half-rapped style.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2014
Heaving dirt from a pit, I would hear on another man’s breath some song half-sung in time to his swing; the engineers called their instructions, wending their way through our deep, loamy fosses.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
