Sentence examples for bars of song from inspiring English sources

Ms. Whiting, 79, whose pale red hair was fluffed up just like her husband's, stood before the band and greeted the guests with a few bars of song.

They were the first bars of a song thrush's morning song.

A few days later, Nirvana performed at the MTV Video Music Awards where, despite the network's refusal to let the band play the new song "Rape Me" during the broadcast, Cobain strummed and sang the first few bars of the song before breaking into "Lithium".

The contestants mounted the stage at a theater in groups of ten and took turns singing a few bars of a song of their choosing.

The opening eight bars of the song form a crucial part of Afrika Bambaataa's legendary "Death Mix," which came out when I was sixteen.

During one show several weeks ago, he played a few bars of the song "Smack That," by the hip-hop artists Akon and Eminem.

Although the photograph is silent, while looking at it I began to hear in my head a few bars of the song.

"A composer writes 32 bars of a song — for example, Gershwin's 'I Got Rhythm' — and Peter turns it into a 12-minute dance arrangement," she said.

Movie directors now like to think that each significant moment in a character's life can be encapsulated with a few bars of a song that happened to be climbing the charts in the period concerned.

Another reason is the way performing on his own makes him feel: "I still get the biggest buzz when alone on stage and I silence an audience within a few bars of a song".

It's enough just to hear the swelling opening bars of a song like "I Will Always Return" to picture the soggy production number it will inspire at next year's Academy Awards.