Sentence examples for half spoken from inspiring English sources

The verses, choruses and bridge are all distinctively different; the chorus consists of chants, the verses are spoken-sung (half spoken. half sung), and the bridge are dancehall themed.

She had a gift for performance, her stylised recitations, half spoken and half sung, half cheerful and half desperate, unnerving her audiences with their sense of something – madness?

This was largely due to the popularity of dancehall music, a type of reggae favoured by the controversial singers in which the bass is turned up and words are half spoken, half sung over the top.

The apartments of 497 Greenwich Street, which Mr. Cantor said are about half spoken for, trade exposed brick party walls and pocked steel beams for high-tech wiring behind smooth Sheetrock surfaces and cool aluminum trim.

First Chevalier's true identity is discovered and the denizens of the castle start a half spoken, half sung number -- "The son of a gun is nothing but a tailor".

At Merkin Concert Hall on Thursday evening the soprano Lucy Shelton offered a haunting, arresting interpretation that illuminated the strangeness of Schoenberg's atonal score, set to poems by the symbolist Belgian writer Albert Giraud and written in Sprechstimme style, half spoken, half sung.

Low, half-spoken vocals.

"From half-spoken shadows emerges a canvas.

(Whooping is the slang term for a half-spoken, half-sung style of oratory).

The texts are delivered in sputtered, sometimes half-spoken words, alternating with eerily elongated lines.

Sam Hunt's Take Your Time is a shimmery half-sung, half-spoken pop song.