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• The musical ambassadors finished their performance, and the local musicians in turn played for them a traditional ballad.From the entry in turn
• "Neon Gravestones" is a forlorn, slow-burning hip hop piano ballad.From the entry slow-burning
• In “Beach Baby,” a countryish waltz, and “Babys,” a ballad with an itchy piano underlay, Mr.2009 January 18, Nate Chinen, “Sonic Adventures, From a Cappella to Zydeco”, in The New York Times. From the entry countryish
• On a ballad called “If Only Once,” she shared lyrical duties with Mr.2007 February 3, Nate Chinen, “Kindred Spirits in Groove”, in New York Times. From the entry ragalike
• But too many of them are vague ballads, and too many are gospely, horn-section, jump-blues kitsch.1994, SPIN - Jul 1994, page 74. From the entry gospely
• It fares better in the ballads and toe-tappers that comprise the rest of the album.1989 August 12, Caroline Foty, “Hindsights”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 7. From the entry torchy
• Old and new ballads delivered in shiveringly strong and colored voice.1983 April 9, Walta Borawski, “Midler in Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry shiveringly
• Then she sang, with an exaggeration of her native gallousness, several sentimental ballads of the day.1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 83. From the entry gallousness
• Incidentally, Mandy Moore choreographed this dance routine to Bonnie Tyler's iconic power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”2019, Sherril Dodds, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 396. From the entry power ballad
• Ballads in the black tradition are also often centonical—they borrow thematic elements from a variety of sources to build something new.2012, Kip Lornell, Exploring American Folk Music, page 181. From the entry centonical
• Reznor’s brooding, sinister songs (which range from thick industrial screamfests to hazy electronic ballads) have (rightly) seduced millions of like-minded fans.2009 June 5, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry screamfest
• Not many artists could pull off such a variety of styles (funk, post-disco, rock, easy listening, ballads) back then.a. 2008, M. Heyliger, A State-of-the-Art Pop Album. From the entry post-disco
• There is a ballad about him." "'Clonbrony Wood'," Tom said.1987, Thomas Flanagan, novel: The Tenants of Time chapter 12. From the entry bogeyman
• That could be Jonson's countercuff to Polixenes' speech ('The art itself is nature'), and to Mrs Taleporter's true ballads.1982, E. A. J. Honigmann, Shakespeare's Impact on His Contemporaries, page 118. From the entry countercuff
• He sings a ballad: “We follow Chairman Mao.”1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Hening, The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu, New York…. From the entry Uighur
• The Skrillex track, “The Distance,” is an R&B; ballad with an electro-pop coating and a Ty Dolla $ign feature that sounds new, but old.2018 November 20, Allison Stewart, “It’s Mariah Carey season, and ‘Caution’ is perfectly timed”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.…. From the entry meme-speak
• In hindsight, Frida's late-Sixties recordings have aged better than many of the oompah schlagers and dronesome ballads that were major hits around this time.2014, Carl Magnus Palm, Abba: Bright Lights Dark Shadows. From the entry dronesome
• The devil's rope was originally designed to keep cows from roaming, Indians from encroaching, and the cowboys from singing their lonesome ballads.2011, Linh Dinh, Love Like Hate: A Novel, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry devil's rope
• A kind of aural uncanny is produced, with classic pop ballads occurring in unexpected places and an unlocatable industrial hum subsisting with—or even muffling—dialogue.2008, Andrew Dix, Beginning Film Studies, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry Lynchian
• Subsequent albums of nonparty songs and metal-like ballads have not been nearly as successful, but 20-something truth-seekers are not made for stasis.2007 March 10, Melena Ryzik, “Are You Ready to Listen? This Rocker Just Wants to Talk”, in New York Times. From the entry nonparty
• The talented songstress is riding the charts with her second hit album, One Wish with the smash ballad Nobody's Supposed To Be Here.1998 December 28 – 1999 January 4, “Christmas Comes Early for Hit Singer Deborah Cox”, in Robert E[dward] Johnson, editor, Jet, volume 95…. From the entry Christmas came early
• This worked especially well for ballads.1990 February 15, Todd Allan Yasui, “Richard Marx”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry finger-point
• There were nights when we all sat around the hearth fire singing the old Irish songs and locally composed ballads which are long since forgotten.1988, William K. Parke, “Escape from the Village”, in A Fermanagh Childhood, Belfast, Northern Ireland: The Friar’s Bush Press, →ISBN…. From the entry ceilidh
• From Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap there was a lot less pickin’ and grinnin’ and a lot more soft rockers and heartbroken love ballads.1987 March 20, Scott Mervis, “Country Slickers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 03 Jan 2009, page 19. From the entry pickin' and grinnin'
• The last one I can remember was a hairy old ballad singer who, it turned out, had a wife and a clatter of kids.1985, Emma Cooke, Eve's Apple, Blackstaff Press, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry clatter
• Some time during the summer I produced, by request, a ballad for a Girl Guides’ Pageant on the subject of Drake’s Cannon-Ball, a local legend.1979: Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C.…. From the entry requestress
• By now, he seems less a cartoon character than some contemporary Erlking, the malicious spirit made famous by Goethe (and Schubert) but found originally in a Danish ballad.2018 October 22, Carol Rumens, “Poem of the week: Three Poetesses by Kristín Ómarsdóttir”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry erlking
• Based partly on the Border ballad 'Gilpin Horner', Scott's poem is on the whole a medievalising concoction set in an Ossianic zone of lastness, fading and death.2014, Robert Crawford, Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and the Literary Imagination, 1314-2014, page 102. From the entry medievalise
• These were long ballads, often sung to the melancholy accompaniment of the one-stringed gusla, in which singers and listeners relived the great archetypal moments of Serbian history.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 22. From the entry gusla
• He also had a good voice and sang ballads, so strongly that the milkmaids one morning at Ólavsøka heard him all over the fiord from Havn.2010, S. A. Bengtson, Dorete--her Book: Being a Tribute to Dorete Bloch and to Faroese Nature, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 127. From the entry Ólavsøka
• If Barbara Gordon was like a name from a Scottish ballad, Marjory Taylor was the kind of name he heard on the radio sometimes, in English pop songs.2010, James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 444. From the entry Marjory
• In the piano stool there was a stack of music, mostly sentimental ballads intended to be sung by people with very average voices accompanied by not very competent pianists.2009, Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side, page 62. From the entry average
• Creaking leather and the snorting of mules, snatches of off-key ballads, the clop of hooves and the patter of bare soles, the rattle of hayforks and lances.2007 March 18, Michael Chabon, “‘Gentlemen of the Road’”, in New York Times. From the entry hayfork
• The Brit soulster has been dubbed the new Norah Jones, Macy Gray and Billie Holiday, but she's equally comfortable with Van Morrison ballads and Stevie Wonder's epic groove.2006 December 6, Jed Gottlieb, “If the Grammys REALLY rewarded music's best . . . [abstract]”, in Boston Herald, archived from the…. From the entry soulster
• In this instance the departure is radical: this is a real car crash of a ballad, impacted (the beginning and end have crushed together) and distorted, yet still recognizable.2003, Mary-Ann Constantine, Gerald Porter, Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic, →ISBN. From the entry car crash
• Dexter Haven) and Errico sing “True Love” when that unconquerable love ballad had its numbers retired half a century ago by Crosby and Kelly – is to cry.1998 June 4, Michael Kilian, “‘High Society II’ can’t bear original”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 283, page F2. From the entry tippy-tap
• How is it possible, then, for Bobby Caldwell to make hard-rock records like Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer one day, and sing well-baked disco ballads the next?1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 355. From the entry well-baked

Meaning of ballad

1. noun A kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
2. noun A slow romantic song.
3. verb To make mention of in ballads.

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Questions about ballad in a sentence

How do you use ballad in a sentence?

Ballad is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The poet composed a ballad praising the heroic exploits of the fallen commander.”

What is a short sentence with ballad?

“This worked especially well for ballads.”

What does ballad mean?

Ballad means a kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; especially, a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.