Example sentences for: soundtrack

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

  • Those who agitate loudest to get the soundtrack recognized as the great modern genre--the conductor John Mauceri, for example--betray a prejudice toward music that is independent, nonreferential, and pure.

  • Or, put another way, why would, say, a ticket stub to the rockumentary Hype be arts-index-worthy, but purchasing the soundtrack would not?

  • But surround the soundtrack with silence and mount it in a frame of its own, and you have a stylish, silky knockoff of Duke Ellington's "Creole" style: a Hollywood makeover of a Northeastern version of raucous New Orleans jazz.

  • Also annoying: the obligatory "Dancing Around Like Idiots" scene (Mick LaSalle, the San Francisco Chronicle ) and "estrogen-soaked soundtrack" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). A few indulgent critics call it a "guilty pleasure" that is "transcendentally silly" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). (Visit the official site.)

  • If Wagner's operas can be excerpted for concert performance, and Stravinsky's ballet scores have a life of their own, why can't the soundtrack jettison its celluloid ballast and soar?


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