How to Use singsong in a Sentence

singsong

1 of 2 noun
  • They spoke in a singsong.
  • Then came playing with his creepy-crawly mannerisms and singsong voice.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 13 July 2024
  • Passers-by spread word of his journey, posting videos showing his wispy beard and singsong speech.
    — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Varathana, a rake-thin man in his mid-thirties with a delicate, singsong voice, explained why.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Carnes’s voice, an Iowa singsong, can wend from weary to impassioned in the course of a single thought.
    — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The singsong dirges, many in waltz time, are so delicate, so self-assured and precise, but what to even call their mode?
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
  • His singsong delivery was sampled in a song by the Dave Matthews Band.
    — Campbell Robertson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Propulsive beats and woozy synths fade in and out as the trio chant the titular chorus and deliver smooth singsong raps.
    — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
  • His love of singing brought joy to his life and those around him, from church choirs and minor league baseball games to Irish events and living room singsongs.
    — courant.com, 5 July 2018
  • Her #Desitok singsong for her dad and sister recently reached the top rankings.
    — Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Elliott’s singsong flow rode atop the burbling beats and skittering synths fleshed out by a live band operating behind the stage’s video screen.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Mothers coo to their babies in a melodious singsong sometimes called motherese, a behavior that is unique to humans.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2010
  • Dano, meanwhile, is up to something much more mysterious and mannered, speaking in a gentle singsong that takes a little bit of getting used to.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Florida rapper 454 delivered evocative rhymes in an innocent singsong, but at speeds that spun the brain.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Notwithstanding the singsong sound, this instinct isn’t terrible for a Wordle opener.
    — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Outside, an umbrella vendor trying to lure customers repeated a singsong, two-note chant, a narrow interval between G and the B above it.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2016
  • For though the singsong lyrics could be understood by a 3-year-old, Johnsrud’s gentle melodic inflections and subtle turns of phrase took this music to a more meaningful level, no small feat.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Hollander’s lines are all but lifted wholesale from that Capote piece, giving us a sense not just of the author’s brilliance on the page but of the way his prose, at least in those stories, brims with the singsong hum of late-night gossip.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Eeny, meeny, miny, moe … This singsong, which required neither hat nor app, had on me the effect of brisk corporal isolation, an ironic effect of a gifting community.
    — Michelle Madden, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Her mother was tattooing eyebrows in Incheon when a client, overhearing Yoo’s singsong greeting, observed that her voice had a perfect traditional timbre.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • Tecca worked with the producing duo Internet Money, whose beats launched the careers of Juice Wrld, among others, to fashion his infectious singsong flow.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Embodying ragtag park denizens, Mannes students meticulously captured Ashley’s singsong, half-speaking style and his deadpan ruefulness.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • But the influence of the US is unmistakable in the local accent (an almost singsong melody with long vowels), the currency and the higher costs — which can, admittedly, cause a sharp intake of breath.
    — Rebekah Evans, The Week Uk, theweek, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Mashing together slang, jargon, pressurized lyricism, erudition, and singsong, he was often seen to court impenetrability in his search to conjure emotional textures rather than solid ideas.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Mountain gorillas exhibit dozens of vocalizations, and Bauma is always vocalizing with Ndakasi in singsong and grunts and the rumbling belches that signal contentment and safety.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2021
  • With his offhanded singsong delivery, spare instrumentation and arsenal of songs that manage to be simultaneously downcast and extravagant, Drake has wielded an outsized influence on the sound of mainstream hip-hop and even R&B the past decade.
    — Brian McCollum, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
  • With an effortless flow and singsong style reminiscent of Gucci Mane at his peak, the East Atlanta rapper croaks melodic bars about the peril and pleasure of the street life over hypnotic beats that smash video game synthesizers into 808 bass.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2023

singsong

2 of 2 adjective
  • Once the alarm sounds, the dog howls a singsong tune in response.
    — Fox News, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Certain of her poems could take on a singsong quality, like a child’s nursery rhyme.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Where the daughter does that singsong thing in the mirror and the detective finds the old guy crying in the boathouse?
    — Sam Lipsyte, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Sanders cooed, teasing the quarterback in a singsong voice that would have sounded right at home in a middle-school lunch room.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 23 May 2017
  • Pretty Sophia, with her singsong voice and clear complexion and plaited yellow hair.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • Her songs turn mild rap cadences into singsong melodies, set to vamps that match guitar or piano chords with perky electronics.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
  • But when those synths get more fried, the glitchiness melts away, and that slurry singsong becomes a drunken, glorious shout.
    — Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The actors’ lines are often delivered in singsong poetry.
    — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • That’s especially true in Beane’s singsong dialogue, mostly rendered four feet to a line with a few extra left feet thrown in.
    — New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The singsong verse of the morality plays is countered by ribald cross talk delivered with naturalistic verve.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The stars’ heavy Irish dialects are accurate and lifelike, often with a lilting, singsong quality.
    — Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Many Americans are more familiar with Cantonese’s singsong cadences than the more clipped tones of Mandarin.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • His music is trap-adjacent, bounce-heavy, and Auto-Tuned, and his nasally singsong voice intensifies into a snarl.
    — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Her voice, a clear, singsong cadence that toddlers seem helpless to resist, has become, for millions of parents, the definitive soundtrack of early childhood.
    — Samantha Barry, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The singsong, paired with darling illustrations and Sendak’s devil-may-care attitude winking from every page, is forever-enchanting stuff.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The syncopated insult rhythms and singsong sermonizing trigger emotional responses.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The film’s special music is that of Dickinson’s poems, which are heard, throughout, in recitations by Nixon that catch the glint of raging inner furies looming deep within the poems’ plain surfaces and lullingly singsong hymnal rhythms.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2017
  • Markéta, the shooting victim mourned by her waitress mother, makes ghostly visitations, her folkish, singsong melodies slicing through the prevailing density of Saariaho’s harmonic textures.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • Lean and glittering in his Nudie suits (likely designed by the quietly iconic Manuel Cuevas), and two decades her elder, Wagoner became, in the singsong language of a country duet, the sometime father, sometime lover of his partner.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020

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