noun
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A gathering at which people sing songs.
verb
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To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
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"I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.
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To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
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To soothe with singing.
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to sing somebody to sleep
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To confess under interrogation.
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To make a small, shrill sound.
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The air sings in passing through a crevice.
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To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
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To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
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The sauce really makes this lamb sing.
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To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
Examples of sing in a Sentence
He obliged and she started to sing Happy Birthday.
I like to sing songs that I believe in.
He asked her to sing them often.
Aren't you going to sing this one to me?
I can't sing now.
He should have known she could sing by her full, rich speaking voice.
Caedmon, sing for me.
How can she sing?
The signing of the peace of Teschen, which averted a great war with Prussia, on the 13th of May 1779, was the last great act of her reign, and so Maria Theresa judged it to be in a letter to Prince Kaunitz; she said that she had now finished her life's journey and could sing a for she had secured the repose of her people at whatever cost to herself.
He makes people rise at five in the morning to sing psalms.
Suppose we each sing a song in turn.
Allow me to sing to you my latest and best song.
Now I am as happy as the little birds, because I can speak and perhaps I shall sing too.
Sing along videos are great for auditory stimulation as well as helping with verbal skills.
Sometimes this gift is a new ability to paint, draw, sing, create music or write.
She wishes she could sing like Faith Hill and wants to visit Australia.
First, he describes how he's going to sing the beat and the chorus at the same time.
Sing.
We sing " Land of our Fathers ", the welsh national anthem.
So, do not be ungrateful, but sing His praises and thank Him for his goodness toward you.
Still others choose to simply chant Bible versus or softly sing praise hymns while practicing yoga.
In a voice quaking with fear, she began to sing.
The only difference to be reckoned with may be in recent tendencies of solo vocalists to sing for effect, and so to extend the compass of the voice upwards.
After washing our hands and lighting the lamps, each is invited to sing a hymn before all to God, either taken from holy writ or of his own composition.
The old palace begun by Man Sing in 1600 ranks second only to Gwalior.
Chunar is first mentioned in the 16th century, when in possession of Sing Joanpore.
Years ago we used to hear quartets sing the catchy chorus went, " They wouldn't bend.
They play harp, flute, cittern, guitar, whistles and sing in close harmony with male and female voices.
His tenor studies did not go all that well, and someone then suggested that he sing countertenor.
Christmas morning between 3am and dawn men gathered at churches to sing carols until the cockerel crowed.
You can sing but you will be a clanging cymbal.
Skylarks sing and dragonflies are plentiful too, including the black darter.
When the end comes, will the angels sing As man becomes jester, he who used to be king.
In Thomas Thomas has his own technical name - doctrine (sing.) or rather sacra doctrina; and this expression holds its ground, though the usage of Abelard, Theologia, was destined to an even more important place (see Theology).
Why do they want to make her sing?
Tell him I want him to come and sing.
Looks like the joke is on the audience members who spent obscene amounts of cash to hear Barbra sing, but were also treated to her political views.
If so, be sure and sing its praises in the comments section of this article!
Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
He played, but when he tried to sing to the accompaniment of the instrument, his feelings overcame him.
The only procession formerly prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer is that in the order of the burial of the dead, where the rubric directs that "the priest and clerks meeting the corpse at the entrance of the churchyard, and going before it, either into the church, or towards the grave, shall say, or sing" certain verses of Scripture.
His stride is the stride of a giant, from the sentimental beauty of the picture of Marie Antoinette at Versailles, or the red horror of the tale of Debi Sing in Rungpore, to the learning, positiveness and cool judicial mastery of the Report on the Lords' Journals (1794), which Philip Francis, no mean judge, declared on the whole to be the "most eminent and extraordinary" of all his productions.
It was at this time, however, par excellence the vestment proper to the cantors, choirmaster and singers, whose duty it was to sing the invitatorium, responses, &c., at office, and the introitus, graduate, &c., at Mass.
He wolde sowen som difficultee Or springen cokkel in our clene corn"; but the most generally received explanation derives the words from lollen or lullen, to sing softly.
The Hebrew poets did not sing its praises, and others compared it unfavourably with the clear rivers of Damascus.
She'll soon sing a different song when I, the leader of this orchestra, flail my baton.
Tomorrow, on the equinox, it'll be so powerful, it will sing to you.
He'll become a part of the chorus and sing a song on his friends.
Before our coda, allow us to sing one last refrain.
And then began the lord abbot to sing the Mass of the Holy Innocents.