sung
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of sing.
half-sung
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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
Most of the recitatives — the half-spoken, half-sung dialogues that link one musical number to the next — are omitted, but plot points lost thereby are explained by captions, a canny solution.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2021
But thanks to the musicality of Madlib’s beatcraft, Gibbs has embraced melody and even a half-sung hook here and there, like on “Crime Pays” and “Gat Damn.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2019
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
