fugue

Example Sentences

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Yet investors didn’t show the same anxiety once trading started, sending the indices into a sort of fugue state.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

That time spent getting the headboard, for example, was frankly spent in a sort of grim fugue state, wordlessly drifting from place to place in exhausted resignation.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

The chorus, in the old musical forms of canon and fugue, demands light.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Ben, who didn’t partake and has now entered a fugue state, where he relives memories, or perhaps near-memories, of his time with an ex-boyfriend.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

Fugue — A fugue usually has at least three independent parts, or voices.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones