(n.) A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
(v. i.) To make or sing ballads.
(v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Celtic fans still regularly belt out The Ballad of Willie Maley," writes Mark Sheffield.
(2) His father, who was fond of humming the popular ballad Keep Right on to the End of the Road, lost his job in the great depression of the early 1930s.
(3) The band wanted to talk about their adventurous musical policy more than their lyrics (they mix brassy banda styles with accordion-based norteno ballads) but agreed that narcocorrido was crucial for their success.
(4) On at least one occasion he was persuaded to pick up a gusle , the single-stringed fiddle of the region, and perform an epic Serb ballad under a framed portrait of himself at the height of his power.
(5) "I feel like I could bring out a ballad next or I could bring out a techno song.
(6) Leaving a Murdoch-dominated media landscape with shows where, each week, shrieking irradiated cannibals sing power ballads as they compete for the right to die?
(7) After The Ballad was published in 1986, I spent two years in my room.
(8) Instead, Miliband's choices were often full of personal meaning, such as Paul Robeson's rendition of leftwing anthem The Ballad of Joe Hill, which he selected in memory of his father Ralph.
(9) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(10) Polydor signed her in 2009 and she might easily have released a debut album of unadorned guitar ballads, the sort of stuff she'd been touring around London pubs and bars.
(11) Rock's lingua franca remains the post-Oasis, post-Radiohead big stadium ballad, replete with keep-your-chin-up lyrics, usually suggesting you "hold on".
(12) Yet one one of the most moving moments of the night came when the choir from Parrs Wood High School in south Manchester duetted with Grande on her ballad, My Everything .
(13) His dad had liked Paul Robeson, hence Ballad of Joe Hill; the South African national anthem reminded him of an inspiring South Africanhe had known who was murdered by the secret police.
(14) The norteño band Los Tigres del Norte cancelled a planned appearance at an awards ceremony at a government-owned auditorium in October after organisers allegedly asked them not to perform a drug ballad.
(15) Jon Morter, 35, a part-time rock DJ and logistics expert from South Woodham Ferrers, near Chelmsford, decided it would be a bit of a giggle to start a campaign to encourage people to buy a record with pretty much the opposite vibe to the X Factor winner's ballad.
(16) It also inspired a Johnny Cash hit, The Ballad of Ira Hayes, with lyrics touching on a bitter legacy that is the source of many of the reservation’s problems to this day: The water grew Ira’s people’s crops ’Til the white man stole the water rights And the sparklin’ water stopped.
(17) Despite the jail's grim exterior, the regime is fairly liberal and inmates earn extra cash by selling food, handicrafts - and drug ballads.
(18) The trailer is book-ended by Tyson quoting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
(19) Official Charts Company data shows Noel Gallagher’s band High Flying Birds had both the best-selling vinyl single and album in the first three months of the year, with Ballad Of The Mighty I and Chasing Yesterday , respectively.
(20) After university in Cambridge, he toured revolutionary Europe and then set up home briefly in the West Country with his sister Dorothy, where he met Coleridge, his collaborator on their early popular volume, the Lyrical Ballads .
Carol
Definition:
(n.) A round dance.
(n.) A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay.
(n.) A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol.
(n.) Joyful music, as of a song.
(v. t.) To praise or celebrate in song.
(v. t.) To sing, especially with joyful notes.
(v. i.) To sing; esp. to sing joyfully; to warble.
(n.) Alt. of Carrol
Example Sentences:
(1) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(2) Belfast in Odd Man Out Released in 1947, directed by Carol Reed Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carol Reed is a brilliant director of cities in films.
(3) Along the way, he fathered a child at 20 and immediately turned his back on her (they are now reunited), had a brief and unhappy marriage to the broadcaster Carol McGiffin and a series of frenetically unsatisfying relationships.
(4) Carole Berry, of Rollingsons Solicitors, said: "I had a simultaneous exchange of contracts on the 23 December to make sure the deal went through in time.
(5) Last week the president of the US-based National Organisation on Disability, Carol Glazer, was quoted as describing the use of disability in his murder defence as “exploitation”.
(6) (Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire) Ms Carol Ann Duffy, CBE.
(7) Ritesh Singh – who got three As in geography, biology and chemistry and a C in extended project science – is going to Carol Divila University in Bucharest to study medicine.
(8) Carol Long : "It seems important to find a way to disseminate the learning in ways that are accessible for those with busy caseloads."
(9) He must also decide whether to resurrect the post of White House climate adviser, which has been empty since early 2011 when Carol Browner stepped down .
(10) Dr Carol Kerven counts the human cost: goat herders in Inner Mongolia are shortchanged, selling their goat hair for as little as $2.30 a kilo.
(11) Prof Carole Longson, director of the centre for health technology evaluation at Nice, said: “We know that people with cancer place great importance on drugs that can increase their life expectancy.
(12) As Carol J Adams, author of the acclaimed The Sexual Politics of Meat, once said: "People say 'sex sells'.
(13) In an article for the Guardian two days later , Bate wrote that no reason had been given and that he understood that Carol Hughes, who controls her husband’s estate, had been happy with how he planned to research and present the work.
(14) The publication of the letters and the sale of the second archive by the poet's widow Carol suggested that she might be relaxing the position made clear by Hughes's publisher, Faber, soon after his death: that there would never be an "authorised biography" of this most controversial poet.
(15) We hope this integrity will not be lost in the formation of the new organisation.” Dr Carol Homden, CBE, Coram’s CEO, said in a statement: “Coram is the oldest children’s charity and has been delivering fostering and adoption services for 275 years.
(16) At a meeting with Ms Dhu’s mother, Della Roe, grandmother, Carol Roe, and sister in Port Hedland this week, Barnett said the inquest would be held in the middle of the year.
(17) Among the protesters were Duggan’s mother, Pamela, and his aunt Carole, who marched alongside Baker’s mother.
(18) One read: “In such troubled and troubling times it is so important that we respect each other and stand together.” It was signed: “Carol, a local resident.” Another, signed “Geraldine Adams (local white British non-Muslim)”, was addressed to “the Muslim community of Finsbury Park”.
(19) August 4, 2014 Carol Gilchrist (@CarolGilchrist) @GdnVoluntary keeping it simple and 'real life' ...
(20) Off stage, I think the material is justified, because it is about intent: ultimately, Carol Thatcher thinks she has done nothing wrong, while I am aware of which lines I have overstepped and why.