music box
Example Sentences
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Aficionados will delight in minor details such as being close enough to touch the ghoulish monkey music box from the original, and being within breathing distance of the performers in these famous roles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2025
René opens the music box, and a tinkling music begins to play, the same song heard long ago in his Damascus sitting room.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2024
There, in the Morris Museum’s collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, is a music box from around 1877.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
We had our ears pressed to a giant music box.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
