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Didn't you notice they changed the theme of the New Year Art Show? In past years fifth graders painted self-portraits, but this year they made us do those ridiculous self-portraits as animals, remember?  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

I felt like I'd been traveling for weeks, like I'd been dodging lions and tigers on a safari through the jungle, trying to get to the Lost Diamond City buried in the Congo, which happened to be the theme of the last matinee I'd seen in Sylvan before leaving.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

When she finished berating the people she worked for, Rosa Hubermann would usually move on to her other favorite theme of abuse.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

My father also loved to write poetry, sometimes about love, but often on controversial themes such as honor killings and women's rights.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

Both of the films were popular with the public, both found favor with the Politburo (which was eager to give the People some respite from the war years through suitably themed diversions), and our young starlet reaped the effortless rewards of fame.†  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

It would become a corporaterun dystopia, an overpriced theme park for wealthy elitists.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Even in cartoons, theme parks, and popular movies.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

Some committee decided the theme should be Midnight in Paris, so there's a huge Eiffel Tower made out of Christmas lights.  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

He is always making mix tapes for my sister with very specific themes. One was called "Autumn Leaves."  (source) Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999

I go to a Chinese-themed bar covered in graffiti.†  (source) Marie Lu, Legend, 2011

Right, the cold and artificial pleasures of the theme park.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

I told you, no theme parks.  (source) Jojo Moyes, Me Before You, 2012

My mood is uplifted when I hear the Indiana Jones theme music.

The theme is announced in the first measures.

The Fresh Prince theme and his willingness to embarrass himself helped with that.  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

I could almost hear the Star Wars theme music playing in my head as I stood on the stage.  (source) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

They played movie themes, polkas, anything familiar you could hum along to; the corny songs were all dedicated to "Poppy" or "his lovely lady."  (source) Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, 1991

the theme tunes from a few popular TV shows  (source) Darren Shan, A Living Nightmare, 2001

—and then realized it was the theme to M*A*S*H.  (source) Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012

The band started playing "My Girl," the squad theme song...  (source) Sarah Dessen, Dreamland, 2004

Because it was the theme music on an old radio show.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

As I spoke, I could hear the distinctive theme music from ESPN's SportsCenter coming from the living room.  (source) Stephenie Meyer, New Moon, 2006

As the loudspeakers play the theme song from Chariots of Fire, Lowe wheels Christopher Reeve onstage.  (source) Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, 2001

The marching band started playing the theme from the latest Batman movie.  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory, 2014

The new tune which was to be the theme-song of Hate Week (the Hate Song, it was called) had already been composed and was being endlessly plugged on the telescreens.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Do you choose the topic for your theme or is it assigned?

Grace grabbed the theme and shook it at her daughter, who was being rocked in Flora Baumbach's arms.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

And it isn't a reference theme; I want your own ideas and your own experiences.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

Someone had written a theme paper on the topic: in school.  (source) Robert Cormier, After the First Death, 1991

"I bet you like to write themes," he said, rolling his eyes.  (source) Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees, 2002

I tried to write that theme when I got home.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

In the other were some papers of Lorraine's from school--an incomplete chemistry notebook, a sheaf of English themes, and a dance program with a browned gardenia stuck between the covers.  (source) Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer, 1942

This one started because I hadn't done anything on that theme, and I wanted to go for a ride.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

Copy out your themes again the rest of you.  (source) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917

I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writing about something that was important to me.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

My studies for the first year were English history, English literature, German, Latin, arithmetic, Latin composition and occasional themes.  (source) Helen Keller, Story of My Life, 1903

You're failing this class right now, but taking into consideration the circumstances, if you come up with a good semester theme, I'll pass you with a C grade.  (source) S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967

Maybe when I went away to college in the fall I would have to write all my themes for English class about water spraying over the side of boats and wet sails flapping in the wind and thin moons that were hardly there, because that would be all I could remember, all I could think of.  (source) Maureen Daly, Seventeenth Summer, 1942