How to Use music box in a Sentence

music box

noun
  • By the other stairs, the music box sat still.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The first notes are alone on a piano, almost like a music box.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Her layback spin belongs in a music box.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Jubilee was named for the zoo’s baby chimp and had a music box in its tummy.
    — WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • His set opened with tones resembling a buzzy music box, with low rumbling drones.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
  • This simple task was designed to test which of two pairs of blocks a child would pick to turn on the music box.
    — Sarah White, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
  • The music box your grandmother gave you, full of stinking mud.
    — Hannah Cloke, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Speaking of which, the watch doubles as a music box and can play the main theme from the movie on demand.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2024
  • They were found with two small bags holding clothes, a towel, a flashlight, two phones and a music box.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
  • His hair has been worn thin after years of petting and moths, but his Swiss music box still works.
    — WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Bring a bit of nostalgia to your house with an old-fashioned wooden music box.
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • That tension came to a head when the music box suddenly went missing from his room.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a scene where Jimmy Page is sitting there with a music box.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2022
  • When a key is turned and the doll’s hands are positioned correctly, the music box plays a tune.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Here’s a kalimba, an African thumb piano with metal tines that plink like a music box.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The widow introduces the girl to a strange doll that has a music box in the shape of a piano locked in its chest.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • The display takes the idea of a ballerina from a music box and puts that into lanterns.
    — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • This soft, jazzy track opens with a slow fade-in on Sejeong’s pretty vocals over a music box tune.
    — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Phantom fans should also keep an eye out for an original monkey music box.
    — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And the incorporation of a music box melody to add to the evocative lyrics?
    — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The music box allows users to make their own music by downloading an app and placing puffs on the back of the box.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • All of the music-making turns the Carter household into a full-size music box.
    — James Bash | , oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Brilliant Corners woke me up and prodded me as a teenager to think outside of the music box.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • These are like tiny music boxes that come in silver, two different shades of blue, and, for the fun of it, magenta.
    — By Ellise Pierce photos By Ross Hailey, star-telegram, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In fact, the fan regulators in the music box work similarly to those in a minute repeater.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • In the main experiment, the music box would only play music if two different kinds of blocks were placed on top of it.
    — Sarah White, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
  • And, like creating one of the most complicated watches, building the combs for the music box is no easy feat.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 4 May 2022
  • The sound of the police and fire scanner, which my parents relied on for stories, was my music box and my bedtime story.
    — Katy Tur, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2017
  • There was a winding mechanism for both the music box and the wheels that had a distinctive Schuco key.
    — Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • The music box tune makes this introduction all the more terrifying.
    — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 13 Oct. 2020

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