Example sentences for: tunes

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

  • It’s a place where talented music students play classical pieces, or musicians from around the world play their traditional tunes.

  • "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" (George Michael) or "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" (Billy Ocean) are better titles and stronger images than you get in most show tunes.

  • Davis' writing assumed a pared down pop sensibility on tunes like "Stuff," from Miles in the Sky . It's a cocky funk tune that wouldn't be worth its 17 minutes if the soloists weren't Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter.

  • If you are a fan of old-fashioned jazz—what is now known as “traditional” or “trad” jazz—you are familiar with one of the standard “jump tunes” of the genre—a tune most commonly called Muskrat Ramble . Even if you are not a fan, you must have heard it as least a dozen times.

  • A chart issued by Co-operative Funeral Services listed the top 10 tunes chosen in Britain for playing at funerals, of which the first four were: Candle in the Wind (Elton John), Simply the Best (Tina Turner), My Way (Frank Sinatra), and Knocking on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan).


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