Example Sentences

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One thing I can’t play is family unfriendly tunes.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

“You’ve got to see that as a contributing effect,” he said, driving listeners back to tunes made long before that technology became commonplace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

One of the tracks, a brightly melodic calypso theme titled “St. Thomas,” is Rollins’ best known composition, and a standard in the lexicon of jazz tunes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

The musical’s tunes are among the most widely known English-language songs in China, embraced as a wholesome and earnest tale about love of one’s homeland and taught in classrooms across the country for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

He murmured old childish tunes out of the Shire, and snatches of Mr. Bilbo’s rhymes that came into his mind like fleeting glimpses of the country of his home.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien