musical box

Example Sentences

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What are your thoughts on breaking the barrier of genre and not staying within a musical box?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

For a while, it seemed as if the stars of the movie, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, had conquered not only the movie musical box office jinx but also all of social media.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

Woo hammers the loss with a deliberateness that feels desperate: oppressive blue gloom, a slumping Christmas tree with unopened presents, a twinkly musical box that evokes sadness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2023

Britain's government sent Queen Elizabeth a specially-commissioned musical box to mark her platinum jubilee, depicting on its lid the black front door of the Prime Minister's Number 10 Downing Street office.

From Reuters • Jun. 9, 2022

To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a womout musical box.

From "1984" by George Orwell