How to Use song and dance in a Sentence

song and dance

noun
  • Alas, the wheels start to come off early on the song and dance front.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Later bursts of song and dance will up the stakes much higher.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Trump, a rapid-fire lie machine, did his usual song and dance.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • George, on the other hand, has done this whole song and dance before.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Each outlandish episode is filled with wicked wit and even busts out with a bit of song and dance.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Put on your favorite song and dance, walk the dog on a slightly longer route, or go for a swim.
    — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021
  • And the bizarre song and dance numbers, for all their anachronism, pull us in further.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The opening bit was a song and dance with a cabaret singer backed by a small band with a large horn section.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • If that all sounds like generic plot devices tossed into a stew of song and dance, so what?
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
  • There’s a dead body or two, a frothy song and dance number and absurd plot twists aplenty.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Dad came up in Boston politics and that can be a song and dance show.
    — Fred Bronson, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2017
  • No one is expecting someone to come out and do a song and dance, either.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 May 2021
  • The meaning of the song and dance has two versions, Leavitt said.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Dancing to the right tune What’s a ball without a little song and dance?
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • But the main attraction of Schemitzun are the displays of song and dance.
    — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Given the chance, Baumbach can’t help making a song and dance of things.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The viral song and dance sensation hits 30 cities over six weeks.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 9 July 2019
  • Better yet, the best way to be fully absorbed in Krishna was through song and dance.
    — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Each family telling our stories through song and dance, filled with lots of laugher and love.
    — Jennifer Lance, Glamour, 2 Dec. 2018
  • Each family telling our stories through song and dance, filled with lots of laughter and love.
    — Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Dec. 2018
  • The song and dance spectacular could make its way to screen in season 2.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • That led to a high-energy song and dance that set a generic, slightly high-strung tone for the night.
    — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
  • The story also includes a plot twist and a song and dance for children to follow along with.
    — Yasmine Askari, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Legoland Summer Jam is a song and dance show featuring a brass band.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
  • The show jumps from monologues to song and dance numbers to a lengthy sitcom parody.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 July 2021
  • Take all the amazing things about the shows already on this list and then add breaking out into song and dance to it.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Just stop with this whole song and dance between Kuminga and Steve Kerr.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Take the concentration out of the camps / concentrate it on some song and dance.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The first image that the word ‘Bollywood’ conjures up is one of song and dance.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Times are changing, and Arkansas isn't exempt from that song and dance.
    — Arkansas Online, 18 Aug. 2021

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