How to Use mood music in a Sentence

mood music

noun
  • Decor should be candlelight, soft cushions, and mood music.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Yet, whisper it quietly, the mood music is changing tune at Wolves.
    — Jack Bantock, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Milton, who does it full-time, posts exquisite videos of the food, with mood music to suit the vibe of each or talks colorfully about the tastes.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
  • With $5,000 / ozt already within sight, further upticks are now firmly part of the mood music.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • What all this means for the other remaining Saudi gigaprojects isn't clear at this stage, but the mood music coming from the desert country isn't positive.
    — New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2026
  • For a decade, Lil Pete has been holding down the Bay Area with sensitive, post-Jacka mood music.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 June 2026
  • For many years, critics frequently downplayed the soothing texture of Sade’s songs as mere aural wallpaper, mood music for lovemaking.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 30 June 2026
  • Decades later — with an original song score by Norah Jones now providing the mellower midlife mood music — both are still unsure what went wrong between them.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • Suddenly, an essentially free 12-month extension was on the table despite all the prior mood music suggesting that would not happen.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The mood music at City, meanwhile, is noticeably more subdued, although Jeremy Doku’s last-gasp curling equaliser on Merseyside did keep their hopes alive.
    — Ayo Akinwolere, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Gloomy mood music Starmer, and the four leaders before him, all correctly diagnosed the UK’s perennial low growth problem and made fixing it their top priority.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
  • The mood music has sounded good for that eventuality in recent weeks, with Carrick involved in planning meetings and Champions League qualification secured.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • As Elena Rybakina dismantled Sabalenka’s game in the Cincinnati Open quarterfinals on Friday, the mood music was muted before her Flushing Meadows return.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Steve Matthews, Head of Scripted, Creative in EMEA at Banijay, told an audience at the MIA Market today that there are actually reasons to be cheerful about the mood music in drama commissioning and that producers should be supporting their writers’ more ambitious visions.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025

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