largoin a sentence
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The music was marked largo, but she likes to play it at a faster tempo.
largo = slow tempo
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"Nothing, Jean Louise," she said, in stately largo, "the cooks and field hands are just dissatisfied, but they're settling down now—they grumbled all next day after that trial."
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largo = slow and dignified manner
- He watched Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson in Key Largo.† (source)
- I put 'largo's scrap of newspaper in my pocket.† (source)
- I spent a day snorkeling above the endangered reefs off Key Largo and another firing off clips of ammunition at a shooting range with a two-time robbery victim who swore he would never be victimized again.† (source)
- Of course, it didn't help that the TV stations played Key Largo on one channel and a documentary on the "Great Hurricane of 1935" on the other.† (source)
- A series of eloquent largo passages begins to fill the hall.† (source)
- I could never have imagined 'largo's anger at being found, or the story she was writing over.† (source)
- " Their baby voices shrilled out in Handel's "Largo" and they knew it merely by the title of "Hymn.† (source)
- As the Choir gets into place, the CHURCH BELLS stop and an unseen ORGAN begins Handel's "Largo.† (source)
- But those other things—you're right, ma'am,—there ain't much—Robinson Crusoe and the Bible; and Handel's Largo, we all know that; and Whistler's Mother—those are just about as far as we go.† (source)
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- I remember when I thought Largo was O.K. Durruti was good and his own people shot him there at the Puente de los Franceses.† (source)
- The girl with the face of a tapir played Handel's Largo on the violin, accompanied on the piano by the man from Mannheim.† (source)
- He told us that he was born at Largo, in the county of Fife, in Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth.† (source)
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