Example sentences for: tunes

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

  • Critics praise it for bucking Disney's musical-comedy formula: It's full of self-conscious humor (jokes about a glut of Hercules merchandise) and employs gospel music instead of the usual treacly pop tunes.

  • Doctorow's 1975 novel about turn-of-the-century America gets saddled with forgettable tunes by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally that is "thuddingly didactic," especially on race (Lloyd Rose, the Washington Post ). The show has "the aura of something assembled by corporate committee," says the New York Times ' Ben Brantley.

  • Hair , Godspell , the title song of Phantom , the current sensation Rent (the "rock opera" that so distracted killer Brit nanny Louise Woodward from her household duties), all are unconvincing hybrids--neither good rock nor good show tunes.

  • ( Then look upon him with a big goofy grin on your face and sing him a medley of Cole Porter tunes.

  • , Jason Alexander minces around, puts on women's clothes, and continually bursts into show tunes.


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