Example sentences for: melodies

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

  • Like the musicians themselves, give yourself up to the hypnotic effect of the notes, rhythms, and melodies, or even the silences.

  • This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.

  • Everyone in the group was composing, especially Shorter, whose strangely floating, Moorish-inflected melodies are among the most mesmerizing in jazz.

  • From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.

  • When he plays his hits in concerts, Dylan often twists them, garbling their lyrics and sandblasting their melodies into strange new creations.


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