(v. i.) To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece.
(v. i.) To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do.
(v. i.) To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice.
(v. i.) To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry.
(v. i.) Ti cry out; to complain.
(v. t.) To utter with musical infections or modulations of voice.
(v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry.
(v. t.) To influence by singing; to lull by singing; as, to sing a child to sleep.
(v. t.) To accompany, or attend on, with singing.
Example Sentences:
(1) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(2) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(3) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(4) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
(5) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
(6) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
(7) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(9) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
(10) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
(11) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
(12) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
(13) In the control group sings of irreversible damage appeared in 90 min, in the presence of phosphocreatine, 10 mM, these changes became apparent in 120 min.
(14) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
(15) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
(16) Still, he has been taking singing lessons and he acknowledges that the end result "doesn't sound bad".
(17) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(18) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
(19) Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone.
(20) For a few short months, the long-divided radio industry appeared to be singing from the same song sheet with the BBC and commercial radio backing the creation of a new cross-industry body, the Radio Council.
Yodel
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Alt. of Yodle
(n.) Alt. of Yodle
Example Sentences:
(1) They rightly perceive that there is a better chance that retailers can get it to them there.” James Daunt, chief executive of the bookstore chain Waterstones , said its online deliveries were being delayed by “one or two days” as a result of problems at its courier service, Yodel, which has been overwhelmed with demand from the retailers it serves.
(2) But they are easy to miss amid the glut of MOR crooners – Nat King Cole, Pat Boone, Mel Torme, Frank Ifield yodeling his way through Hank Williams's Lovesick Blues – and the sound of the Joe Loss Orchestra.
(3) On Thursday delivery firm Yodel also admitted to problems with a backlog of deliveries and temporarily halted pick-ups from retailers.
(4) People will opt for that as they are guaranteed their item rather than relying on the likes of Yodel.” Demand for click and collect is growing ahead of the online retail market, which was expected to increase by 22% this year with 930m parcels dispatched.
(5) 7.37pm GMT “Evening Ian,” yodels Simon McMahon.
(6) Kesha, the pop star who first rose to fame with the loopily yodeled party hit Tik Tok in 2009, appeared to suffer a severe legal setback last Friday .
(7) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.
(8) Austria election: far-right candidate and rival tied at 50% in exit poll Read more His campaign videos have featured some unabashed yodelling, his speeches have often referred to the attachment he feels to his Tyrolean H eimat (homeland), and he has repeatedly stressed the social duties and obligation to integrate of Austria’s 90,000 newly arrived refugees.
(9) Morrissey had started yodelling by then, and he'd get down on his shoulders and put his legs straight into the air.
(10) In the Hermes and Yodel model, they only get paid once.” Nicholson said Hermes’ rising profitability “is on the back of the lifestyle couriers who have had little or no increase in what they get per parcel for the last three years”.
(11) Marks & Spencer , Tesco, Debenhams and Argos have all warned of delivery delays in the wake of Black Friday, while courier company Yodel has admitted that it had stopped collecting parcels from retailers because it was struggling to cope with the volume of goods being bought online.
(12) Hermes couriers, alongside workers at the Royal Mail’s ParcelForce and other companies such as Yodel, are the footsoldiers of the internet shopping boom.
(13) This slow frequency change relaxed back to baseline following a biexponential time course which closely resembled that of a distinct behavior seen in intact fish, termed 'yodeling' (Dye 1987).
(14) The second behavior, which we have termed a 'yodel', is distinct from and kinetically intermediate to chirping and the JAR.
(15) Some Amazon customers in Britain are facing the prospect of orders failing to arrive in time for Christmas following the inability of courier companies such as Yodel to cope with a surge in online shopping.
(16) Yodel, with 8,000 couriers, operates a similar system.
(17) It was the second worst performer in the survey, behind Yodel.
(18) "About eleven o'clock, Lucille Henderson, observing that her party was soaring at the proper height, and just having been smiled at by Jack Delroy, forced herself to glance over in the direction of Edna Phillips, who since eight o'clock had been sitting in the big red chair, smoking cigarettes and yodelling hellos and wearing a very bright eye which young men were not bothering to catch," writes Salinger.
(19) These studies compare the pitch perturbations during the crescendo and decrescendo of a swell-tone, and show typical traces of staccato, thrill and yodel.
(20) 'Yodeling' (Dye 1987) appears to involve similar, characteristic changes in the pattern of firing as those seen during chirping.