Sentence examples for off to sing from inspiring English sources

However, he lost at least three daytime jobs for taking time off to sing.

"I don't necessarily tell my students that I'm going off to sing at Lincoln Center," she said.

Before they were sent off to sing through the score, Stroman instructed them on the inspirations for the dance movements they'd be perfecting over the next three months.

She starts with unashamedly romantic ballads and breathy, Latin-edged big-band numbers, then veers off to sing in Japanese, Croatian, French, Turkish or Portuguese.

This where jazz developed from West African rhythms – slaves gathered here on Sundays, their day off, to sing, beat drums and celebrate.

I remember the moment the Scottish light-entertainment heroine Lena Zavaroni went off to sing for Gerald Ford at the White House.

These two old sporting adversaries set the traditional rivalries aside as Wembley became a symbol of solidarity, never more so than when both sets of fans joined together before kick-off to sing the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", with the words "Against us tyranny's bloody banner is raised" carrying particular resonance.

"A lot of kids are here for Christmas and nowhere to go," said Ms. Te Kanawa, who, nursing a cold, perched on the stairs and begged off pleas to sing "Silent Night" in Maori.

The losing Maria or Joseph, having just lost the sing-off, had to sing once more as they exited the show.

She continued, off and on, to sing, and knocked lucklessly on the doors of every record company in London.

In addition, there's a reason Shine seems less like 90s R&B than something Simon Cowell would sign off for Damage to sing: for all the nice production touches, there's often something weirdly disinfected about Years & Years' sound.