singsong
IPA: sˈɪŋsɔŋ
noun
- A piece of verse with a simple, song-like rhythm.
- An informal gathering at which songs are sung; a singing session.
- Bad singing or poetry.
- A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
verb
- To utter in a singsong voice.
- (obsolete) To write poor poetry.
adjective
- Like a piece of singsong; simple and melodic, varying in pitch (of tone of voice etc.)
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Examples of "singsong" in Sentences
- He speaks to himself in a singsong backward way and can leap.8 miles.
- Do not say it in a singsong fashion or out of habit or as an imposition.
- She narrated the episodes in a singsong voice and acted in three of them.
- She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in dumb roles.
- There was some kind of singsong festival going on there, most likely prayers for rain.
- I also fluff thier pillow and read them their favorite jihad passages from the Koran, in singsong fashion.
- A woman's powerful voice called a singsong phrase, and the children replied in a penetrating chorus, punctuating each phrase with unison claps.
- Have dinner with Husband’s high school friend; afterwards, tease Husband unmercifully, repeating “you liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike her” in singsong tones until he stops speaking to me.
- And for all her grandmotherly warmth, Pelosi's peppy bursts of enthusiasm and penchant for speaking in singsong phrases — "We've gotta win, not whine!" — make her come across like a cheerfully energetic PTA mom rather than a party leader capable of swaying national opinion.
- As Stephanopoulos himself cozily recalls, his War Room buddy James Carville screamed in singsong when they scored a press hit on a political opponent (in language that would be unimaginable in Myers’s PG-rated book): “He’s going to have a clus-ter-fuck; he’s going to have a clus-ter-fuck.”