MUSICAL in a Sentence

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For musical or comedy actress, the line-up is Emily Blunt as a consultant for a Mideast sheik in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUSICAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
musical
 a.  containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody
 a.  characterized by or capable of producing music
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She only thought the people were nice to come to see her and to want her in their little sewing circles, cotillion clubs and musical societies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  I'm the celebrated musical tailor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  When I stole into the parlour, Anson Kirkpatrick, Marshall Field's man, was at the piano, playing airs from a musical comedy then running in Chicago.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
4  The talk was all about good and bad hotels, actors and actresses and musical prodigies.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
5  He wrote a furious article, attacking the musical taste of the town, and asked me to do him a great service by taking it to the editor of the morning paper.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
6  The Indian muttered a few words in broken English to Heyward, who, in his turn, spoke to the stranger; at once interrupting, and, for the time, closing his musical efforts.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  When this recital of events was ended, his voice once more changed, and became plaintive and even musical, in its low guttural sounds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
8  A strain of melancholy, however, blended with his triumph, rendering his voice, as usual, soft and musical.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
9  birds are less musical than those of Europe.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
10  A burst of savage laughter succeeded this attack, during which the soft and musical merriment of the younger females strangely chimed with the cracked voice of their older and more malignant companion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
11  He fumbled for his pitch-pipe, and arose with a confused intention of attempting a musical exorcism.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
12  Her voice was musical but unlike that of either of my friends.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
13  In the evening, as Marianne was discovered to be musical, she was invited to play.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
14  They read, they talked, they sang together; his musical talents were considerable; and he read with all the sensibility and spirit which Edward had unfortunately wanted.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
15  The sound of her iron shoes upon the hard road was quite musical, as she came along at a much brisker trot than usual.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  It's a musical instrument made of brass, somewhat like a cornet and with a similar compass.
17  She has a strong musical bias.
18  As for the stage in the public auditorium, it can easily be adjusted to accommodate from a full-scale musical production to one by a solo vocalist.
19  But rarely was the music they played anchored in indigenous sounds of their homelands, as the groups eagerly explored musical hybrids.
20  With his musical talent, he would be much more than some chump pretending to play guitar and sing.
21  Composer Charles Ives often used dissonance clashing or unresolved chords for special effects in his musical works.
22  In musical composition this process is known as thematic development, and it generally extends over the whole, or a greater part, of the piece.
23  He has fused his musical talent, his passion for humanity, and his community and political activism into an extraordinary, multi-faceted career.
24  But a single touch of contrivance spoils it all. Any time we feel the authors creating coincidence or engineering emotion, making melodrama rather than musical drama.
25  For musical or comedy actress, the line-up is Emily Blunt as a consultant for a Mideast sheik in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
26  I blush to admit it, but I quite like her music.
27  Drums are basic to African music.
28  I've developed a taste for African music since my trip last year to Nigeria.
29  On Radio London they play African and South American music as well as rock and pop.
30  We played a tape of African music and began dancing.