ariain a sentence
aria as in: sang an aria
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The year before he died, Pavarotti sang an aria during the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Games in Turin.aria = music for solo voice with accompaniment
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She sang a beautiful aria.
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When the aria was over she turned off the radio and put two rice balls into a blue bowl. (source)aria = dramatic vocal solo
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They secured her in cables and set about scraping blotchy barnacles from her hull as crystal-sharp arias of Miliza Korjus rose from the record player. (source)arias = operatic solos
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My last view through the round window was of Vlad uncorking the medicine bottle and dumping the entire contents into the soup while belting out an opera aria. (source)aria = dramatic vocal solo
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A symphony of grinding, a chorus of popping, an aria of exploding, and finally, the sad clapping of hard metal cutting into soft trees. (source)
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The mother who painted the walls of their Chicago homes the color of flowers; who planted tomatoes and roses in her garden; sang arias; practiced solos on her son's drum set; boogied along with the Soul Train dancers; glued travel posters on her kitchen wall with Karo syrup; herded her kids weekly to the library, to public concerts, to museums; wore a button on her lapel that said "Feed the People Not the Pentagon"; who never went beyond the ninth grade. (source)arias = dramatic vocal solos
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He would put on his best clothes, shave, and play his favorite opera arias on the gramophone. (source)arias = dramatic vocal songs
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My next step was listening to the German and the Italian arias.† (source)
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He said that he had traveled all over the world when he was young and that he had studied opera in Milan and in Buenos Aires and as they rolled through the countryside he sang arias and gestured with great vigor.† (source)
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The walls were papered with dated, now faded murals of Venice, Rome and Florence; the softly piped-in music was predominantly operatic arias and tarantellas, and the lighting indirect with pockets of shadows.† (source)
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And she had no patience with his arias of the unreal.† (source)
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He would never hear the nonsensical chatter of his children or thrill to the arias of La Bohlme.† (source)
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Their faces shone from paintings; their voices rode the long and lovely notes of arias; they descended to capture the bodies and souls of young children; they sang and perched in the trees; they were in the surf and the streams; they inspired dancing; and they were the right and holy combination of words in poetry.† (source)
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Most of them were arias from Italian and French operas—Verdi and Rossini and Gounod—but there was one record that I remember just made me nearly swoon, I loved it so.† (source)
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The women I knew back in New York grumbled from down low in the gut, in messy plaints, everything spoken in 2 A.M. arias.† (source)
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Aria always worried Ella would find out about Meredith and never forgive her for keeping the secret. (source)Aria = a name in this novel
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He slid down to the carpeted floor and watched his mother, whose name was Aria, leapfrog her way across the room and back. (source)
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The week's workload was heavy, but while thinking of Kalden, every query was some glorious aria.† (source)
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One of the pirates scrambles up to balance on the railing, gyrates one fist in the air, and hollers: "ba ka na zu ma lay ga no mala aria ma na p0 no a ab zu ..."† (source)
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Pietro Crespi left for the capital of the province an hour after receiving the letter, and on the road he missed his mother, who arrived punctually Saturday night and at Aureliano's wedding sang the sad aria that she had prepared for the wedding of her son.† (source)
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It was sweet and easy and seemingly endless, a love so lost to time he felt they'd found a spirit-life that would protect them from human flaw, with a small fan buzzing in the corner and an aria drifting from a radio on a fire escape somewhere.† (source)
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After Stanchion introduced her, she sang an aria in a voice so clear and pure that I forgot my anxiety for a while and was ensnared by her song.† (source)
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Ann has stayed behind to practice her aria for Assembly Day—the day when our families will descend upon Spence and see what marvels of womanhood we're becoming.† (source)
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Vaguely, softly, in the distance, a woman with a clear and loving voice sang a beautiful aria in the sound of which Alessandro thought he was going to die.† (source)
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The "One Fine Day" aria creeps in over the speakers.† (source)
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This outburst—this little aria—had come so swiftly that it surprised me; her fingers trembled slightly.† (source)
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Richie, a lesser man, could tune a. car, tear a motor boat apart, plaster a ceiling, build a house, and sing an aria from Carmen.† (source)
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