sight-read
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of sight-read
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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“It’s not one of those parts where you can just, if you’re a good player, sight-read it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025
Phonics is a great way to get kids to sight-read, but whole-language learning in sentences is an important motivating factor.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
In the last years of her life, when she had macular degeneration, it was sad because she could never sight-read in that same way that she could when I was a child.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
In “Yesterday Tomorrow,” from 2018, singers sight-read along as a computer gradually, in a different pattern each performance, transforms the score of the Beatles’ “Yesterday” into “Tomorrow,” from the musical “Annie.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019
They could not help him sight-read a new tune from scratch.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Many people might remember music grades with scales and sight-reading.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
"In this exam: She needs to play three pieces by memory, two pieces read music, technique requirements in major, minor scales, ear training, sight-reading, rhythm clap back, listening and playback and etc."
From Fox News ● Sep. 5, 2021
When she entered NYU and had her first big audition, she botched her sight-reading despite years of practice, setting her on a different course — to teach English as a second language.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020
The performances he attended and went through the motions of conducting were with pickup orchestras made up of rather unmotivated Viennese musicians sight-reading this new, incredibly complicated and challenging music on only one rehearsal.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2020
My sight-reading was terrible today, and I cannot bear to be scolded.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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