lilting

Example Sentences

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Returning to the Metropolitan Opera this month, the Italian classic uses the lilting three-beat form as a unifying element in its tragic drama of a woman’s struggle with Parisian polite society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Colombian star Karol G won won song of the year for Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido, a lilting love song with a Merengue flavour, from her blockbuster fifth album Tropicoqueta.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Occasionally, Fish will be seized with adrenaline as he prepares to wrestle that demon, dangerously flailing around his apartment while Laura Karpman’s lilting score shifts into a jazz-infused cacophony of drums and horns.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025

But it was her TV ads for orange juice—featuring her own children, a cartoon bird, and a lilting jingle about the “Florida sunshine tree”—that made her the nation’s leading avatar for white-bread American wholesomeness.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2025

I imagined her voice to be musical, lilting, the way his was when he read poetry to us.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago