Example sentences for: melody

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

  • When played live, it has a haunting melody but taverna owners do have the irritating habit of playing it at high decibels through overloaded speakers.

  • His words are a dream melody of language, bells from nowhere.

  • We mill around in the dark among the machines, some of which emit fanfares, drumrolls, or gusts of melody, so that between the bumbling and waiting-to-try and noise, we feel much as we might in a video arcade.

  • In 99 percent of his songs, Jerome Kern's music was written before the words, and he was notorious for declining to accommodate his lyricists--no extra notes so that an ingenious word might be made to fit, and certainly no concessions to literal meaning in his melody or harmony.

  • Song, using rhythm and melody in the same way as instrumental music, is religious and romantic in content.


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