How to Use folk song in a Sentence

folk song

noun
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  • The rock & roll and the standards, the dancing, the folk songs.
    — Elysa Gardner, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The group of three male singers will sing classic 1960s folk songs.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • It was designed to sound like a folk song that would be sung in the future.
    — Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • The paintings were spare and haunting, like folk songs.
    — Sasha Weiss, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • But few of us would dare sing an aria in public, or even a folk song.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
  • It is based on a Swedish folk song and has rap influences.
    — Serena Puang, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2022
  • Before anyone speaks, a folk song is sung and a maid sleeps at her sewing.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Blunt's greatest challenge came in singing the Irish folk song that gives the film its title.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Arte would do double talk, like a folk song in Italian.
    — Marc Freeman, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2018
  • So there’s a song in Cold War that evolves over time — a folk song that comes to be very meaningful to the story.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Instead, the Sami sing folk songs around a roaring fire and race reindeer in the snow.
    — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024
  • McGuinn performed the song often as a youth, singing folk songs in coffee shops.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 5 June 2018
  • Nine of the 10 tracks were based on traditional folk songs.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
  • This is a highly covered folk song from the ’60s but none of the covers beat the original.
    — Jude Zhu, Billboard, 15 June 2022
  • Hymns and folk songs are sung a cappella by men and women.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The setting for the recording of the song befits the folk song, with its campfire harmonies and romantic sway.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The alternative folk song -- her words – is one of 11 songs set for the album Wilted, due out Nov. 13.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The track is based on a folk song recorded several years ago among villagers in central Ukraine, to which the band added drums and synths.
    — Daria Mitiuk Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • My task was to write a Colombian folk song that feels like it’s always existed.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2022
  • But on the outskirts of the capital, a Manipuri folk song emanates from a schoolhouse.
    — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
  • On the bus back to the Athletes’ Village, Sieng’s fellow athletes no longer sang cheerful folk songs.
    — Lauren Decicca, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The fairy folk song that goes with this episode is also one that doesn’t grate too much after hearing it over a hundred times.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
  • When Bea brings home a man, Erica sings Dutch folk songs outside the bedroom.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
  • Whenever there’s a pause in the action, a folk song will occupy our time.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • One paper-cut depicts a line from a northern Shaanxi folk song about parting lovers.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The Hold Steady recorded the cover of the song, which is a popular folk song in the fictional Westeros.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Adams’ thrilling choruses are among the opera’s highlights and include his inimitable own take on folk song.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The mystery man quickly became a legend, the subject of folk songs, books and a hit Hollywood movie.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 4 Jan. 2018
  • Their goal was spreading folk songs as widely as possible.
    — Daria Mitiuk Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • The film tells the story of a young poet and singer steeped in an ancient Moroccan form of folk song called aita, but forced to perform trashy pop songs in bars filled with abusive men.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 May 2024

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