obligato
Americanadjective
plural
obligatos, obligatiadjective
Example Sentences
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He bursts from the grass and sings in bursts—plays his own obligato while he goes.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley
It is in its general effect a soprano obligato with chorus.
From The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)
Every human experience has thus its particular and curious æsthetic flavor, as an inevitable though undetected obligato.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
The searchlight switched off, the shells fell less frequently, the Oriental obligato fell away in a diminuendo of pathetic cries and a staccato of terrified jabbering.
From The Tale of a Trooper by Mackenzie, Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes)
The Honorable Pulaski Britt, who didn’t like music anyway, and was trying to talk in an undertone to timber baron Barrett, swore a deep bass obligato.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
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