Word Finder - sung

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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.

A little bird had already sung the good news in my ear; but it was doubly pleasant to have it straight from you.

As early as 1530 Lutheran hymns were sung in the Polish language at Thorn.

It is sung 3 times with a different inflection each time.

Perhaps those which were to be sung according to the old Davidic mode formed the nucleus of the collection, and to these were added other poems to be sung according to the more intricate Korahite and Asaphic modes.

He began dancing at the age of two, and later sung in his church choir.

Angilbert, abbot of St Riquier (c. 814), records that it was sung by his school in procession on rogation days.

The next step in the development of epic narrative was the single lay of an episodic character, sung by a single individual, who was frequently a member of a distinguished family, not merely a professional minstrel.

There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.

Their theological teaching is misty and perplexing; their earliest writings contain no error, and the hymns of their great St Ephrem, still sung in their services, are positively antagonistic to "Nestorianism"; their theology dating from the schism is not so satisfactory.

Its life is the measure of the period of oral tradition, whose requiem is sung by Papias.

This is a colossal seated image cut in a niche of the rock, of "Hittite" origin, and perhaps that called by Pausanias the "very ancient statue of the Mother of the Gods," carved by Broteas, son of Tantalus, and sung by Homer.

If it were sung by bards, it is unlikely it would have stayed as it was.

As a rule the responsorial psalm should be sung.

The metre was also employed in commemorative poems, accompanied with music, which were sung at funeral banquets in celebration of the exploits and virtues of distinguished men.

He writes perceptive, intelligent, incisive, angry songs, sung quietly and tunefully to a supremely accomplished acoustic guitar backing.

The carols sung by the School Choir will range from medieval plainsong to a spectacular piece by the 20th century composer William Mathias.

It is actually deeply soulful, well sung and inspiring.

He knew that she had not sung since her illness, and so the sound of her voice surprised and delighted him.

Introit, or as it is always called in the Sarum rite, " Office," a Psalm or part of a Psalm sung at the entry of the priest, or clergy and choir.

Filled with joy at their rescue from this attack, the citizens crowded to their cathedral, where Beza (then 83 years of age) bid them to sing the 124th Psalm which has ever since been sung.

Spirits capable of being confined in matter and made useful are in various ways sung or coaxed into the tenements prepared for them.

The duet, "Amour sacre de la patrie," was welcomed like a new Marseillaise; sung by Nourrit at Brussels in 1830, it became the signal for the revolution which broke out there.

During the distribution antiphons are sung.

Rolling Stone - "Beautifully sung, but snoozy."

Bohemian Rhapsody lyrics have been sung at top volume by music fans for decades.

The song "Where My Heart Will Take Me" was sung by Rod Stewart on the Patch Adamssoundtrack.

Perhaps the York rubric implies that this was done when it orders (which the others do not) the thurible to be carried round the choir with the Gospel while the Creed was being sung.

The praises of the park and the house have been sung in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, and by Ben Jonson, Edmund Waller and Robert Southey.

We know that the Chanson de Roland was sung at the battle of Hastings, and we possess Anglo-Norman MSS.

The mixed chalice was ordered to be used, and the Agnus Dei to be sung during the Communion of the people.

The Psalms of David are then to be sung.

According to Ephraim's biographer, his main motive for providing these hymns set to music was his desire to counteract the baneful effects produced by the heretical hymns of Bardaisan and his son Harmonius, which had enjoyed popularity and been sung among the Edessenes for a century and a half.

A poet of a later generation might have sung of the great drama in this fashion.

The penitential psalms are sung, and at the end of each a candle is extinguished.

In the American Prayer Book the office of Commination is omitted, with the exception of the three concluding prayers, which are derived from the prayers and anthems said or sung during the blessing and distribution of the ashes according to the Sarum Missal.

A year later the family returned to Moscow, where Hertzen passed his youth - remaining there, after completing his studies at the university, till 1834, when he was arrested and tried on a charge of having assisted, with some other youths, at a festival during which verses by Sokolovsky, of a nature uncomplimentary to the emperor, were sung.

This is often sung in plain-chaunt by three priests, one representing the "narrator," the other two the various characters of the story.

A companion piece, La Varsovienne, was written for the Poles, by whom it was sung on the march to battle.

Her poems were arranged in nine books, on what principle is uncertain; she is said to have sung them to the Mixo-Lydian mode, which she herself invented.

From the 10th to the 13th century Aubusson was the centre of a viscounty, and the viscountess Marguerite, wife of Rainaud VI., was sung by many a troubadour.

For it is difficult to believe that the Homeric poems were ever " sung " in the strict sense of the word.

In it Peisistratus is made to say of himself that he "collected Homer, who was formerly sung in fragments, for the golden poet was a citizen of ours, since we Athenians founded Smyrna."

But as early as the 7th century we come upon traces of short lays (the so-called cantilenes) which were in the mouths of all and were sung in chorus.

The open-air enjoyments of the wood, the field, the dance upon the village green, are sung with juvenile lightheartedness.

When Cadmon awoke he remembered the verses that he had sung and added to them others.

The metrical psalms also, which are still sung in Scottish churches, were adopted at this time; they are based mainly on the version, which had been approved by the Westminster Assembly, of Francis Rouse (1579-1659), a member of the English House of Commons.

Alphonso, who became count of Portugal in 1128, was one of the warrior heroes of medieval romance; his exploits were sung by troubadours throughout south-western Europe, and even in Africa " ibn Errik " - the son of Henry - was known and feared.

On the day after his death Gregoire's funeral was celebrated at the church of the Abbaye-aux-Bois; the clergy of the church had absented themselves in obedience to the archbishop's orders, but mass was sung by the abbe Grieu assisted by two clergy, the catafalque being decorated with the episcopal insignia.

The child was registered as "Glory," and, at the christening service in the chapel of the Abode, hymns were sung in its honour as it 'lay in a jewelled cradle in the chancel.

Fearing that his followers might surrender him to the Turks, he gave out that Austria had declared war on Turkey, caused a Te Deum to be sung in the church of Kosia, and, on pretext of arranging measures with the Austrian commander-in-chief, crossed the frontier.