Example Sentences

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Skipinnish, which plays traditional and contemporary Scottish music, is composing a new song in honour of the winner.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024

It is the first movement in a longer work Machover is composing based on Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 novel “The Overstory,” a densely layered book about the intricately interconnected lives of trees and humans.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2023

Reid — who is composing a string piece for the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

For the sequel, “Hairspray” songwriter Marc Shaiman is composing a new score and writing original songs with Scott Wittman.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 5, 2016

Madam, he is composing an essay upon one of the epistles of Cicero, which I have just given him as a subject.

From The Countess of Escarbagnas by Wall, Charles Heron