Sample Sentences for
opera
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    Even the opera singer has packed it in for the night.  (source)
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    There have been many reports of the Sorcerer's Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr. Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover.  (source)
    opera = the art form that consists of musical plays with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an opera.  (source)
    opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    That sweet little Donna Correlli was booed off the stage when she tried to sing opera.  (source)
    opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    They went to plays and operas and concerts in the parks, listened to string quartets and piano recitals in office-building lobbies, attended movie screenings, and visited museums.†  (source)
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    He was whistling along to an operatic melody that crackled from the radio, winning a smile from Peter.†  (source)
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    How forgiven I felt, for that instant — how blessed, how filled with grace, as if time had rolled backwards and my dry old wooden cane had burst operatically into flower.†  (source)
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    As Gallimard describes the opera, the tape segues in and out to sections he may be describing.  (source)
    opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
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    Look at the way they go tearing up to New York and Boston to hear operas and see oil paintings.†  (source)
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    Perhaps the frequency of the human voice did something to the tiny atomic substances, such as happened when the famous operatic soprano Dame Ariadne Stretch broke a glass by singing at it?†  (source)
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    "They are sounding the retreat," he says operatically.†  (source)
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    If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.  (source)
    opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
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    Do you know I've been going to operas since I was six, Will?†  (source)
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    Also, there is famous soap opera in Russia, Winter Cherry—well, hard to explain.†  (source)
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    Dorm sports results, soap opera story lines, city politics.†  (source)
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    Everybody was just waiting for the next chapter in the Hickam family soap opera.†  (source)
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    She liked to discuss Amy, as if Amy were the heroine on a nighttime soap opera.†  (source)
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    I was fed and cleaned and allowed to watch soap operas; for the rest of the time, I was left to my own devices.  (source)
    soap operas = a television program that typically runs for many years and dramatizes the lives of a group of characters
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    During the parents' afternoon naps, I sometimes watched a soap opera.†  (source)
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    People think it's such a hard read, but it's really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love.†  (source)
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    He wasn't a soap opera star at all, but a head-and-neck surgeon, though I kept thinking of him as some one named Armand in some steamy soap set on a tropical island.†  (source)
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    I never knew much about the family soap opera, but there was a lot of bad blood between the three kids: Randolph, Frederick, and my mom.†  (source)
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    Then, after a carryout dinner of lamb and rice, she switched on the television and watched an episode of an Egyptian soap opera that she had grown fond of in Nahalal.†  (source)
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    I practically gasped the word, sounding like some chick in a soap opera who's just learned her evil twin is still alive or something.†  (source)
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    Glancing inside, I could see her husband, Aleksandr, asleep in his La-Z-Boy recliner in front of a Russian soap opera playing on the TV.†  (source)
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    She had seen the end of her marriage many times, in divorce, in Jack's death at the scene of a drunken car accident (a regular vision in the dark two o'clock of Stovington mornings), and occasionally in daydreams of being discovered by another man, a soap opera Galahad who would sweep Danny and her onto the saddle of his snowwhite charger and take them away.†  (source)
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