Sample Sentences for
encore
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    What will you recite if they encore you?  (source)
    encore = upon completion of a performance, request an extra performance
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    No return engagements. No encore.  (source)
    encore = extra or repeated performance -- especially of music given in response to audience demand
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    The little Chinese girl sat down also to play an encore of "Anitra's Dance" by Grieg.†  (source)
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    Outside our door, a rock concert was demanding its encore: Amy!†  (source)
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    And so, between operatic encores and Neapolitan serenades, his creative talent and his invincible entrepreneurial spirit made him the hero of river navigation during the time of its greatest splendor.†  (source)
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    It was an elegant room filled with celebrities excitedly focused on the sensational new star rendering his famous, backed-by-violins version of "I'll Be Seeing You" and encoring with his latest self-composed ballad: Every April flights of parrots Fly overhead, red and green, Green and tangerine.†  (source)
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    "More, more!" said Lucy, when the duet had been encored.†  (source)
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    Well, that's good, because I'm not sure I have an encore in me.†  (source)
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    Encores of flags.†  (source)
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    Rebecca was as frank and fond of Mrs. Bute as if the other had never been her enemy; she was affectionately interested in the dear girls, and surprised at the progress which they had made in music since her time, and insisted upon encoring one of the duets out of the great song-books which Jim, grumbling, had been forced to bring under his arm from the Rectory.†  (source)
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    I felt prouder than you did when it was encored.  (source)
    encored = upon completion of a performance, asked to give an extra performance
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    Why, not only does every last one of them demand its moment on the stage, it insists upon making a soliloquy full of weighty pauses and artful hesitations and then leaps into an encore at the slightest hint of applause.†  (source)
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    He also organized a cadre of professional applauders, known as a "claque," to provide enthusiastic ovations, demand encores, and cry "Brava!" for any performer willing to pay.†  (source)
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