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overture as in: played the William Tell Overture
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The overture was already being played when they arrived.
overture = orchestral music played as an introduction to a longer piece
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The curtain had not yet risen and the overture was being played.† (source)
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Bod had listened to all kinds of music: the sweet chimes of the ice-cream van, the songs that played on workmen's radios, the tunes that Claretty Jake played the dead on his dusty fiddle, but he had never heard anything like this before: a series of deep swells, like the music at the beginning of something, a prelude perhaps, or an overture. (source)
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About fifty people, including a number of couples, were taking their seats amid the din of the recorded overture—a scratchy, fast-paced medley of Broadway tunes played at extremely high volume in order to drown out the disco beat from below. (source)overture = music played as an introduction to a longer piece
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Even the very same song, the 1812 Overture, hummed through the PA speakers—Rosewood played between-classes music because it was "mentally stimulating." (source)Overture = orchestral music played as an introduction to a longer piece
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There were a lot of overtures and single movements from the world of lofty symphonies, played by famous orchestras under well-known directors. (source)
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The stage was dark for a moment, and silent; then suddenly, with a burst of golden light and an orchestral overture from the CD player behind the curtain, Angel stepped onto the stage. (source)
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From the treasury of disks, he assembled a special album, a collection of light favorites, dances, short overtures, and other such folderol, which he made available to them and which admirably served the purpose, since Elly had no need of more sublime tones. (source)
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They played a duet from "Zampa," and at the earnest solicitation of every one present followed it with the overture to "The Poet and the Peasant." (source)
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He lowered the lid, and in the same moment from between the louvers at the open double doors—no, from the whole chest itself—a bustling, merry instrumental din burst forth, an insistent noisy melody, the first bars of a toe-tapping Offenbach overture. (source)
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The Radio City Symphony was performing the last movement of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.† (source)
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Artemis imagined that somewhere the 1812 Overture was playing.† (source)
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For Marley, who considered himself the resident Welcome Wagon, it was a joyous overture.† (source)
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AN OVERTURE† (source)
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overture as in: she made an overture
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She rejected his overture to be more than friends.
overture = tentative suggestion (designed with the hope of leading to something more substantial)
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overtures of peace
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...the first overture of a marriage between the families...† (source)
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I hear there is an overture of peace.† (source)
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But now, when he has made his overtures so properly, and honourably—what are your scruples now? (source)overtures = offers or suggestions
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My friendly overture had fallen flat. (source)overture = attempt to start a friendly conversation
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But these overtures are dismissed by Zalmai unceremoniously, sometimes venomously.† (source)
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Perhaps sensing the modern world progressing away from the church, the Pope had made overtures, softening the church's position on the sciences, even donating money to selective scientific causes.† (source)
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Now and then David made overtures, but Paul always chose that moment to leave, pushing back his chair and yawning, suddenly tired.† (source)
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He had no faith, no trust whatever in any peace overtures by the British, however properly rendered.† (source)
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Rabban has sent cautious overtures about a truce.† (source)
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It washis place to make the overtures-first to Sloan and then to Katrina-not hers.† (source)
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The record contained the many overtures from Rossini's operas, including the most well-known The William Tell Overture.† (source)
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Why on earth he could believe that she'd want anything to do with him was beyond her, but no matter what she said to him, it didn't seem to deter his overtures.† (source)
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overture as in: the play's overture
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The idea is introduced in the play's overture.
overture = introduction
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"The overture's already started," he said. (source)overture = music played as an introduction to a longer piece
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As the overture ended, the room went black. (source)
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Drinks were the overture to dinner.†
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an overture to war†
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