songlike

Example Sentences

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He was brainy and clever and had a way of saying my name that sounded songlike in concert with his shy smile.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2024

It can also distinguish between the complex, songlike calls that the animals make when they’re feeling good and the long, flat ones they make when they are not.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022

Are Ed Sheeran’s songlike secretions actually holding the universe together?

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2017

The routine, slightly less than six minutes long, is songlike in structure—after each cluster of two or three jokes, Mac yells “Kick it!” and a snippet of cheesy, drum-heavy hip-hop plays.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

“Don’t come any closer, son,” she said, and her voice was still intact, just as he remembered it, the healthy, songlike voice of a young girl.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende