Example Sentences

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And the fans were serenading Cousins with “You like that!” while Griffin was in a sweatsuit on the sideline, inactive for the 13th time in 14 games.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2015

By then, however, it was becoming clear that even winning the trophy would not spare the man they were serenading.

From The Guardian • May 12, 2013

She made her voice squeaky and kept her lips from moving and it was as if Cinnamon were serenading with her.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

As though he were serenading the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

He toiled in partial delirium, and it seemed to him that he was looking again at the phantasmagoria of the Coston lights on the fog when the yachtsmen were serenading the girl of the Polly.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman