ditty
Example Sentences
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The record opens with a spirited British vaudeville-esque rendition of an original ditty called “Everywhere it’s Christmas,” which informs the listener that “Everywhere it’s Christmas/at the end of every year.”
From Salon
Consider the little ditty my son was taught to memorize in the first grade:
The tune for this ditty was suspiciously like a tune from Pirates on Holiday, the nautical operetta whose first act Penelope and the children had witnessed while visiting London some months earlier.
From Literature
The song evokes the same reassuring warmth generated by that indelible “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” ditty “It’s You I Like,” especially as reinterpreted by Sherie Rene Scott in her 2010 Broadway show “Everyday Rapture.”
From Los Angeles Times
A lovely chamber-folk ditty about two lovers keeping painful track of each other long after the end of their toxic romance.
From Los Angeles Times
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