song
noun
a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
songlike
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a word derived from
song.
Example Sentences
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He was brainy and clever and had a way of saying my name that sounded songlike in concert with his shy smile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Using electric harps that she herself designs, she plays music on a sliding scale between minimalism and superabundance — it’s high on ingenuity and surprise, but less interested in songlike structures.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2018
The routine, slightly less than six minutes long, is songlike in structure—after each cluster of two or three jokes, Mac yells “Kick it!” and a snippet of cheesy, drum-heavy hip-hop plays.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
One of the set's highlights is a seven-minute canter through Lyle Mays's glistening and vivaciously songlike Chorinho – an increasingly animated and freewheeling exchange in which Law improvises sumptuously.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
“Don’t come any closer, son,” she said, and her voice was still intact, just as he remembered it, the healthy, songlike voice of a young girl.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
