Sample Sentences forballad (editor-reviewed)
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The singer ended the concert with a heartfelt ballad about lost love.ballad = slow, emotional song that tells a story
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The old ballad told the tragic tale of two lovers separated by war.ballad = song that tells a story
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Jemmy's ears pricked up as the ballad seller began singing a sample of his merchandise. (source)ballad = a song that tells a story
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For as long as I remember, especially when in a good mood, he sang this Mexican ballad that I never could figure out the words to. (source)
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As the Knight sang the last words of the ballad, he ... (source)
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He decided he didn't like that ending to the Epic Ballad of Leo.† (source)
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But the song was a slow-moving ballad, and Chablis swayed sinuously rather than bumped.† (source)
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Hour after hour of ballads, love songs, mountain airs.† (source)
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She had read and reread them—cullings from Chaucer, from Spenser, from the Elizabethan lyrists, the border balladry, fierce, tender, oh, so human—till she knew pages of them by heart, and their vocabulary influenced her own, their imagery tinged all her leisure thoughts.† (source)
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He led her in and out of pairs of bodies ghost-floating to the tune of an old ballad from his youth.† (source)
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They joust and have festivals and sing ballads.† (source)
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A good hymn tune or ballad is uplifting to the spirits.† (source)
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Nightly the dark tree-lined streets resounded with dancing feet, and from parlors tinkled pianos where soprano voices blended with those of soldier guests in the pleasing melancholy of "The Bugles Sang Truce" and "Your Letter Came, but Came Too Late"—plaintive ballads that brought exciting tears to soft eyes which had never known the tears of real grief.† (source)
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As Daisy switched the song to a romantic ballad that she and Mychal were singing, I started thinking about turtles all the way down.† (source)
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I used a different trick to learn the ballads and other songs we studied at the school.† (source)
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A singer was playing the high harp and reciting a ballad, but down at this end of the hall his voice could scarcely be heard above the roar of the fire, the clangor of pewter plates and cups, and the low mutter of a hundred drunken conversations.† (source)
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