How to Use song in a Sentence

song

noun
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  • I could hear the song of a sparrow.
  • He sang a love song.
  • The song was playing on the radio.
  • The event was celebrated in song by a folk group.
  • At the end of the song, the two shared a hug as the crowd cheered them on.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2024
  • So some of these songs are from the last four or five years?
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Midway through the song, fake snow even fell across the stage.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
  • And, of course, the genre of song played at the Mos Eisley Cantina: jizz.
    — Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Have a song stuck in your head but don't know who sings it?
    — Emily Price, PCMAG, 26 May 2024
  • The act of that song is two guys bird hunting, but the song isn’t about that.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2024
  • None of the lyrics of the song at all felt like a good standout lyric to be the title.
    — Charles Moss, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The first one was something about this Bruno Mars song.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That’s a trick Arthur uses to signal to her mind that the song is over.
    — WIRED, 15 July 2023
  • The Atlanta rapper joined the singer one stage for the second to last song on the setlist.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • And how much were the original songs rewritten along the way?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The song was still playing coming out of the break as Johnson went to the free-throw line.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
  • What were the first and last songs recorded for this album?
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2024
  • No doubt inspired by Ray and Saliers' shimmies at the start of the song, a few fans came down to the edge of the stage to dance.
    — Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2024
  • Over the next 12 years, the song bounced around the web but remained unidentified.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • For season three, Bareilles wrote the song that Dawn sings at the end of the group’s tour performance.
    — Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The 60 by 96-inch piece, titled after the song, is made up of glass tiles on foam board.
    — Zoe Ruffner Camille Sojit Pejcha Zoe Ruffner Kyle Beechey Osman Can Yerebakan Samuel Rutter, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • For their part, Smith shared a video of some of his dancers with a snippet of the song playing in the background.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • There was one song where pyro went off for the entire song.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Plus, the parody song paired with the end credits is top notch.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The craft requires voice, but not song; movement, but not dance.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Jake is proof that, as the song goes, country boys can survive.
    — Janaya Wecker, Country Living, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Nao played a song and asked Casella to identify the singer.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Nao played a song and asked Ms. Casella to identify the singer.
    — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The fourth and final country song to top the Hot 100 this year was, at last, a feel-good story.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Quincy Jones is a multi-Grammy award winner and the genius behind some of of the most iconic songs and artists in the world.
    — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024

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