Words similar to ballads

Example sentences for: ballads

How can you use “ballads” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In addition, he collected folktales, proverbs, ballads, and other lore, which were published in the California Folklore Quarterly in the 1940s.
There was an “inner need” for the people to compose ballads that sang of the deeds of a man standing up for his rights, who in the process is transformed into a hero.
Supposedly the word gained popularity after Avila Camacho became president of Mexico because in ballads macho easily rhymed with Camacho.
The ballads, on the other hand, are overwrought and declarative.
The famous Mexican folklorist Vicente Mendoza has stated that the concept of machismo, and the word macho, were not prevalent in Mexican corridos (ballads) and popular culture until the 1940s.