Sample Sentences for
chord
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chord as in:  piano chord

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  • Its tremendous chords held all the sorrow and all the strength of the people of the city.  (source)
    chords = notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
  • my head swirls on this, but then softer thoughts soothe, like a flatted third on a major chord.†  (source)
  • He drew a plaintive chord from the woodharp.†  (source)
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  • Dissonance and harmonic tension slowly resolved into warm chords—the sound was transcendent.†  (source)
  • But this fresh anger struck a deeper chord than most of his sudden bursts of frustration.†  (source)
  • All his favorites, chording slower and slower, quieter and quieter.†  (source)
  • The guitar thudded with chorded applause for the singer.†  (source)
  • All right, you tell Uncle Felix," said Aunt Ethel, turning toward the roses, spreading her little hand out chordlike over them, "—of course he must have these-that that's Souvenir de Claudius Pernet-and that's Mermaid-Mary Wallace-Silver Moon— those three of course Etoiles-and oh, Duquesa de Penaranda-Gruss an Aachen's of course his cutting he grew for me a thousand years ago— but there's my Climbing Thor!†  (source)
  • Chords float past in transparent riffles.†  (source)
  • He tried a chord on the instrument, nodded.†  (source)
  • A boy with a guitar sang the "Down Home Blues," chording delicately for himself, and on his second chorus three harmonicas and a fiddle joined him.†  (source)
  • He bound me with kisses and cords of chorded song.†  (source)
  • The syllables rolled through his head like a ripple of guitar chords.†  (source)
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