(n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
(n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
(n.) The chancel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bono then serenaded the archbishop with the U2 hit Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, backed by the gospel choir.
(2) He has plans to assemble choirs of 17 people in Derry, China and Brazil, and 17 Tutsis and 17 Hutus in Rwanda.
(3) Steel bands, choirs and dancers performed while the mass of people, many with their children, blew horns and whistles as they passed alongside parliament.
(4) As the cathedral clergy in their golden robes snaked in their stately procession around the nave, with the choir all in white and the bishops in white and scarlet, the theatre still seemed moving enough.
(5) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(6) Recent BBC2 hits included science series Wonders of the Solar System, the Springwatch-inspired Lambing Live, sitcom Miranda and The Choir follow-up Unsung Town.
(7) Bob gave a really touching speech before we started singing, so that really got everybody in the mind frame that we needed to be in to remind us that it’s fun but we’re here for a really serious reason.” Sandé added that the participants “sounded like a really powerful choir” when they sang the chorus.
(8) Musical interludes, courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and, in over the end credits, an enormous children's choir belting out Over the Rainbow were only marginally better received.
(9) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
(10) I hate it when people are very different online than they are in person, and she’s very unified,” says Choire Sicha, her former editor at Gawker.
(11) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(12) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
(13) He and his scraggy, kind old dog Gerard were based every evening at Leicester Square tube (exit 1), and for the past two years we met every week on my way home from choir.
(14) Those who refer to such gatherings as simply preaching to the choir miss the point.
(15) Shorter, a retired electrician from Kent, began singing for the first time after joining the care home’s newly formed choir last year.
(16) My friends and I had formed the choir at university, calling ourselves Coro Bajocuerda, which means “against the ropes”; it’s how we felt living under Pinochet’s oppressive regime.
(17) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(18) This meant that if a parent was involved in flower arranging or choir rehearsals at church, they stood a better chance of securing their child a place.
(19) This humiliating practice was nicknamed "the choir".
(20) The subjects were 22 male and female junior and senior high school Caucasians in a central Kentucky church youth choir.
Troupe
Definition:
(n.) A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Addressing the clampdown on Swiss bank accounts, which George Osborne had factored into the government's estimated income last year, Troup confirmed reports from last month that officials had collected significantly less than expected.
(2) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(3) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
(4) Three months later, the Lilliput Troupe was back on stage.
(5) Everyone is so positive,” said Jodie Evans , a co-founder of Code Pink, as her troupe advanced down Third Street Promenade.
(6) He was cleared of the third count along with Troup, that he had plotted to pay an unknown prison officer for a story about the suicide of career criminal.
(7) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(8) Viewing was down on last year’s final, won by Hungarian shadow dance troupe Attraction , which drew an average of 11.1 million viewers and a 51.4% share.
(9) Another rare reunion comes from the all-star American sketch troupe Mr Show , led by David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, who will perform under the slightly different name of the Mr Show Experience.
(10) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
(11) But the Lilliput Troupe drew the inmates beyond their shells, to care about them and their whereabouts.
(12) I loved the live show filled with great Bollywood songs, performed by a fabulous troupe of dancers and singers.
(13) The officials facing the committee were Edward Troup, tax assurance commissioner, Jim Harra, director general of business tax, and Jennie Granger, director general of enforcement and compliance.
(14) Last year's final, won by acrobatic troupe Spellbound, averaged 12.3 million viewers, according to overnight figures .
(15) With their live act, the pair (formerly of sketch troupe Fat Tongue ) have been on the verge of greatness for years.
(16) A s if juggling the chairing of this year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh international television festival , becoming a mother and editing ITV News during a general election year were not enough, Deborah Turness is also considering joining a dance troupe.
(17) A pause ensued, while the injured troupe member was identified, the dripping leg-wound bandaged, the stage mopped.
(18) Troup defended his professionalism and integrity and made a distinction between his position as a commissioner and that of a tax inspector.
(19) Referring to a statement from HMRC released on Wednesday morning which said that Troup would not be attending, Hodge said: “It is not for you who appears before this committee, it is for us to decide who we will see.
(20) On the day itself, the formation dancing troupe the Rockettes were engulfed in controversy about whether members wanted to dance.