ballad
Example Sentences
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It was only when he penned Since We Divided - a big swelling ballad with piano and emotive vocals about a teenage relationship - that Shay started to gain confidence he could succeed with music.
From BBC
Zardoya’s yearning for a love lost crescendoes, and is most devastating, in the piano ballad “Back to You”; but it seems as though even her darkest, most melancholic moments are touched by the fae.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s Keith—squeezing his life like a press, turning a brush with death into maybe the most beautiful ballad in rock ’n’ roll—that gives us hope.
On the opening song, “Luz de Luna,” he gushes about not wanting to miss someone over a heartfelt piano ballad that slips between punky guitar rifts and unpredictable 808 drums.
From Los Angeles Times
Guernsey singer Emily Fern wrote her twinkly Christmas ballad "quite accidentally" in a church hall.
From BBC
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