Example Sentences

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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

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

He’s referring to his conversational, half-sung, half-spoken delivery of the lyric, veering as close as a then-almost-50-year old esteemed white singer-songwriter from Queens might get to rap.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2018

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