songlike

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for songlike
Adjective
  • The rhythmic whooping grew louder in the air as search helicopters made their way for the missing.
    Sophia Leone, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2025
  • With a relationship dating to 1970, the tandem built a balanced, rhythmic symmetry that accommodated any type of flourish or alteration.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • Macy, who plays Arn Peeples, an explosives expert, finds lyrical beauty in an early 20th century America where the outside world is fast closing in on their traditional, pastoral way of life.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
  • Even the title phrase, which Francis immediately fell for, falls pretty squarely in line with classic country wordplay and lyrical imagery.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • One More World is a sustained experiment in constructing a coherent personal register from grand forms – technical, sacrificial, mythological, memorial – and its accomplishment involves the translation of High Modernism into a lyric mode.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.
    Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.
    Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 25 June 2022
Adjective
  • Director Noelle Marion keeps the laughs flowing in this lilting production, which is well-cast, nicely sung and stunningly costumed by Elisa Benzoni.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2025
  • Its lilting melody leads the listener by the band straight into the fist-pumping chorus, which simply repeats the title multiple times — with the exclamation mark included.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Kepler’s harmonic law acts as a scale to weigh celestial bodies.
    Andrej Prša, The Conversation, 23 July 2025
  • As dark as the film can seem, it’s also filled with moments of harmonic bliss whenever the girls perform.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • This dynamic composition weaves together intense orchestral elements with modern beats, perfectly capturing the film’s blend of supernatural action and high energy music.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • Beloved is almost barren of the hip-hop flourishes that peppered his earlier work, and instead leans all the way into the orchestral R&B of another time, lush with searing strings and the crash of real hi-hats.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
  • The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.
    Jordan Michelman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 July 2025
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“Songlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songlike. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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