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Definition of sing-song in English: sing-songadjectiveˈsɪŋsɒŋ (of a person's voice) having a repeated rising and falling rhythm. the sing-song voices of children reciting tables Example sentencesExamples - ‘Come on, come on, come on,’ she whispered in a little sing-song voice, ‘come on, come on, come on.’
- Lucky didn't like this child and taunted him by saying ‘hahaha, your Dad's dead and mine's not, your dad's dead and mine's not’ in that sing-song way you all know so well.
- Joan heard him yell back in a sing-song voice from the car.
- ‘I get to be a Dragon, I get to be a Dragon,’ she repeated in a sing-song voice, many times.
- ‘I had a dream,’ said Logan in his sing-song voice.
- ‘I did it, Dion,’ Chris said in deadly calm, almost sing-song voice.
- The interpreter turns to an obviously bored senseless Nic and repeats in a sing-song voice, ‘What do you like about Japan?’
- Hardly a day goes by without me hearing her yammering away in her high-pitched whiny sing-song voice, making somebody's life miserable.
- Andrea began teasing in a lilting sing-song voice, ‘Brandon's got a girlfriend, Brandon's got a girlfriend!’
- ‘I love being in love,’ she proclaimed in a sing-song voice.
- ‘Looks like someone didn't get the memo,’ says the chief in a sing-song voice.
- ‘If you say so,’ Breanna said in a sing-song voice, telling me that she believed none of the words I just said.
- The man grinned, then reached out, gently touching Lexa's shoulders with both hands, and murmured, in a sing-song voice.
- ‘Eveeeeeee,’ came the sing-song voice of my housemate, Mandy.
- I perfected the sing-song voice.
- ‘Oh Maddie,’ James said in a sing-song voice, ‘Would you come in here?’
- ‘I told you it would work,’ a sing-song voice teased.
- ‘There is no right and wrong,’ Martha reasoned with a sing-song voice.
- Why doesn't she learn not to lecture with that sing-song voice?
- Sassy seems to be largely benevolent as most reports feature his lilting, sing-song voice drifting through the swamp.
Synonyms chanting, chant-like monotonous, monotone, droning, toneless
nounPlural sing-songs ˈsɪŋsɒŋ 1British informal An informal gathering for singing. he used to play the piano and have a sing-song with his pals Example sentencesExamples - They developed from a variety of sources - from the music and acrobatics offered at pleasure gardens like Vauxhall and Ranelagh and from sing-songs at local taverns.
- As we grow older, we all become nostalgic for the past and Mrs Manning spoke of schooldays, family sing-songs, church concerts and so on.
- In addition to doing school studies, the students can take part in dances, film shows, concerts, sing-songs, debates and quizzes.
- There were no chants and no sing-songs heralding his arrival.
- It was rooted in the parlour musicales, the outdoor sing-songs, the marching bands, the hymns stoutly sung in church, and other impressions of his boyhood.
2in singular A sing-song way of speaking. she was speaking gently in her soft Irish sing-song Example sentencesExamples - Eventually, she starts rambling in a dazed sing-song about fat women walking up a hill and thin women walking down.
- There's some vague taste of that childhood sing-song, ‘I know what you did’ in his tone and his gaze.
- When dinner's ready I sashay into the lounge room and announce in a loud sing-song, ‘Comestibles!’
- He started talking on his two-way radio with at least two other drivers in a fast, repetitive, sing-song.
verbsing-songed, sing-songs, sing-songing ˈsɪŋsɒŋ [no object]Speak or recite something in a sing-song manner. the kids started sing-songing with direct speech ‘Blessed be’ sing-songed Kruger Example sentencesExamples - As if campaigning before the local Democratic Ladies' Club lunch, he sing-songed back, ‘There will be plenty of time to discuss all of those issues, about why, and how, and what, and if.’
- My mother sat beside his bed, sing-songing to him with her sad flowery Kermanshahi accent, ‘Did you see what happened to us, my little brother, my little beloved?’
- There was no disguising the crinkle of plastic wrapping paper or that little-girl voice sing-songing, ‘Now my Fuzzy Wuzzy will grow hair.’
- ‘He has mean eyes and a mean face and his shoes are shiny black,’ Abby sing-songed, closing her eyes as she spoke.
- ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent,’ Andy sing-songed.
- ‘I'm going to Europe, I'm going to Europe, I'm going to Europe’ she sing-songed, bopping about.
- ‘I read radical statements and he sing-songs,’ Benn says, by way of explanation.
- Lobo cursed as walkers in the shadows sing-songed back.
- He sing-songed just loud enough so it would be picked up by the phone.
- ‘Jamaican is the nearest we have to Old English, man,’ he sing-songs.
- His voice sing-songed as dripping wax flowed over capsules containing various types of dangerous apparatuses.
- ’I loathe him’, she sing-songed as the waiter walked away.
- ‘Spit-spot, spit-spot,’ she sing-songed around the room.
- ‘This swing is saved ’, Allison sing-songed at Christy.
- ‘We have fresh, homemade soup,’ he sing-songed.
- ‘You like him, you like him, you really, really like him,’ she sing-songed, avoiding my eyes.
- ‘You're lying’, something inside her head sing-songed.
- Janey sing-songed, elbowing me in hopes of a happier response.
- ‘Don't worry, Beth, I won't tell a soul about your love for Celia’ he sing-songed.
- Davey sing-songed, holding onto my hand and swinging it.
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