wordless
Example Sentences
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The wordless vocal refrain bears a resemblance to Leo Sayer’s 1976 hit “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” and that’s one catchy hook alongside several others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
The Jewish composer recalled the niguns — wordless, improvised prayers — that he grew up hearing in synagogue, and he drew on that sense memory.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
The most striking departures are the handful of wordless sequences of Hujar and Rosenkrantz posing in the manner of a fashion shoot, scored to snippets of Mozart’s Requiem.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
It includes a wordless soprano in tribute to Nellie Melba, the Australian soprano.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025
We lay in the tent for three days while the blizzard yelled at us, a three-day-long, wordless, hateful yell from the unbreathing lungs.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
