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Definition of Singsongs
1. singsong [n] - See also: singsong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Singsongs
Literary usage of Singsongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1888)
"... on the three figures at the judge's bench. He didn't dare let his eyes wander.
Then the voices began. They came from behind him in menacing singsongs. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1916)
"This was the softest, prettiest kind of conversation, all little murmurs and
chirps and singsongs. Why, Betsy- could almost understand it! ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"... Polytechnic and Panopticon nrc about to introduce dramatic readings and
singsongs as part of their attractions—there can be no objection we ..."
4. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1898)
"... and singsongs, but when, after a full hour of the incantations, he came to
his sermon on the Christian duty of total abstinence, he gave us a splendid ..."
5. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... also enables him to pitch the note so as to reach the maximum of distance with
the minimum of exertion to the chanter. There are no two whose singsongs ..."
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