How to Use folk song in a Sentence

folk song

noun
  • Peter would open with folk songs.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
  • But few of us would dare sing an aria in public, or even a folk song.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The folk song once asked, Where have all the flowers gone?
    — Jahan Marcu, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The rock & roll and the standards, the dancing, the folk songs.
    — Elysa Gardner, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
  • It was designed to sound like a folk song that would be sung in the future.
    — Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • Before anyone speaks, a folk song is sung and a maid sleeps at her sewing.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Not bad for a guy who made his name writing five-minute, gut-punch folk songs about small-town malaise.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • The group of three male singers will sing classic 1960s folk songs.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Hypocrisy, burdens disguised as blessings and folk songs abound.
    — Rachel Sherman, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • McGuinn performed the song often as a youth, singing folk songs in coffee shops.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 5 June 2018
  • Blunt's greatest challenge came in singing the Irish folk song that gives the film its title.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Whenever there’s a pause in the action, a folk song will occupy our time.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • My task was to write a Colombian folk song that feels like it’s always existed.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2022
  • My task was to write a Colombian folk song that feels like it’s always existed.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • These were American folk songs, but with Spain as their subject.
    — Vita Dadoo, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
  • Instead, the Sami sing folk songs around a roaring fire and race reindeer in the snow.
    — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2024
  • One paper-cut depicts a line from a northern Shaanxi folk song about parting lovers.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The fairy folk song that goes with this episode is also one that doesn’t grate too much after hearing it over a hundred times.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024
  • This includes folk songs, spirituals and music from the stage and screen.
    — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The album is named after a Korean folk song.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026
  • There were maybe two or three simple lines in it and a great vocal melody, like a folk song, except electronic.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 17 June 2026
  • Adams’ thrilling choruses are among the opera’s highlights and include his inimitable own take on folk song.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Online collections of folk songs going back hundreds of years.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Online collections of folk songs going back hundreds of years.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Online collections of folk songs going back hundreds of years.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Online collections of folk songs going back hundreds of years.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Online collections of folk songs going back hundreds of years.
    — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Online collections of folk songs going back hundreds of years.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The Philly duo’s tender, faintly medieval-sounding folk song has its hands clasped and its heart on its sleeve.
    — Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
  • Conrad soon joins the chorus of the Irish folk song, proudly belting it out alongside his wife.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 26 May 2025

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