How to Use tuneful in a Sentence

tuneful

adjective
  • The clock is just as rare, gorgeous, and tuneful now as then.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • And one of the most tuneful options, of course, is to go see some live music.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 17 June 2024
  • The guitar strings are a tuneful addition to the mix as well.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 17 June 2022
  • It’s all given a tuneful sheen that suggests the work of a teeming pop-rock hive-mind at work.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
  • This is not overtly a holiday tour, so expect a range of tuneful treats.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 Nov. 2024
  • For most people this record is merely a tuneful amalgam of easy chords and easier smiles.
    — Matt Giles, Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The show is smart, witty, tuneful, and teeming with mighty performances.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The songs, while tuneful and well-crafted, often blur together.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • And throughout his career, Wizkid has refined his sound to a tuneful tee.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2022
  • All during an era crowded with rock bands talented and tuneful enough to not just reach the mainstream, but shape it.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 July 2021
  • The fact that most anyone can enjoy Monáe’s tuneful defiance is key.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2018
  • All but one of its tracks deal with romantic ups and (mostly) downs, honed into crisp, tuneful pop structures.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • These guys make loud, warm and tuneful rock about trying to get by when the outside world—or your interior voice—is telling you to stop.
    — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Parker and his team wanted a sense of heart conveyed through the playful, tuneful, unpolished score.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The vigorous choral writing—both hymn-singing and mob frenzy—is static, and many of the arias are tuneful but shapeless.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But their tuneful and robust, swaggering rock-and-roll songs were hugely popular and did, in fact, hold up.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Here’s hoping this show sticks to its angstier, less tuneful early work, rather than the later songs designed for everyone to hum along to.
    — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Nate Chinen, Stephen Holden and Elise Czajkowski, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Her verses, sprung from grief so fresh, would be set to the music of a centuries-old hymn, merged into a tuneful prayer meant to comfort those who sing and hear it.
    — Kristin E. Holmes, The Seattle Times, 15 Dec. 2017
  • All with one of the most tuneful scores and a sweetly appealing cast of characters as audiences are likely to encounter.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 8 May 2017
  • More than 25 Motown gems and other songs will be performed via a tuneful array of solos, duets and group medleys.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The band forges a powerful hybrid of melody and mood, creating a tuneful lattice of sound that often lingers in the air rather than pushing forward.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 11 May 2018
  • His Story also features clever design elements and a cast of tuneful young performers, many from the area.
    — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • The tuneful score adds to the fun (though strangely for a children’s show, the overture is long enough to come from the golden age of Rodgers & Hammerstein).
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018
  • Dulcet, melodious, and tuneful are just three of the adjectives that will never be applied to the GT’s soundtrack.
    — Greg Pajo, Car and Driver, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The British band Yes was probably the biggest and most successful — and most tuneful — of prog practitioners.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • So go ahead and make your own playlist from these choices on Spotify or another streaming service and enjoy a tuneful Christmas day.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • There's also a tuneful cameo on the track's bridge and chorus from an anonymous woman whose face is entirely covered, with the exception of her mouth and braids peering out of the back of a ski mask.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 18 May 2018
  • As opposed to just posting a school closed today because of snow update, Caddell has a tuneful message that should appeal to Billy Joel fans.
    — The Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The Jongen, a splashy, tuneful, Hollywood-meets-Brussels affair from 1926, has been on my wish list for years.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The Bay Area is also losing a tuneful historical reminder of the important role that the East Bay played in the blues genre over the decades.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 13 July 2019

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