Definition of music box in US English:
music box
nounˈmyo͞ozik ˌbäksˈmjuzɪk ˌbɑks
A small box that plays a tune, typically when the lid is opened. A traditional music box contains a cylinder, turned by clockwork, with projecting teeth that pluck a row of tuned metal strips as it revolves.
Example sentencesExamples
- He kneeled down in front of the dresser and stared at the music box as it played the beautiful song in delicate notes.
- He heard her set the music box aside and search for more items in the box.
- A music box plays reluctantly to introduce a menacing drone that dominates the piece despite the protests of a scraped guitar.
- She swung around, accidentally hitting a music box with her hand.
- He pulled out the music box slowly, and he put it in her hand.
- It was a picture of the music box and an article next to it.
- There's a little music box inside that plays Silent Night.
- The sounds of a music box shifted into gusting wind as one group of dancers exited upstage while another solemnly entered.
- It was not music like that which one might hear from a music box, but was more like an entire orchestra playing very a very fast tune unlike any they had heard before.
- I sit here and listen to my music box play its little song.
- On the floor beside the bed, lay an overturned music box - the one he had sent her just after he proposed.
- She turned and saw a little music box playing the soft lullaby.
- Gabrielle had bought her a music box, but when the accident occurred, it had hit the ground forcefully and was smashed to bits.
- She was singing a little song that she had made up from the tune of the music box her mother had given her.
- Jessica picked up the music box, and she began to play it.
- There was her nightstand with pictures and a music box.