Sentence examples for ridiculous tune from inspiring English sources

"Let the Yankees  keep their ridiculous tune of 'Yankee Doodle,' but by all that is sacred, do not let them monopolize the stars and stripes," one Confederate sympathizer told South Carolina's William Porcher Miles, the man in charge of the congress's flag committee, as recounted in "Flag: An American Biography".

I start singing ridiculous tunes with bizarre words to stir him awake, he's not amused.

They can still work as jokes, if well handled - I think the only instrumental work that ever made me burst out laughing in a concert is the finale of Shostakovich's first piano concerto, with its ridiculous pratfalls and deliberately idiotic tunes bursting out into Mrs Mills-type polkas for no good reason.

I hang out with my friends and play ridiculous cover tunes when I'm happy.

Ridiculous — until you tune in Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, etc. etc. etc.

Second, Beethoven weaves its varied threads into one of his greatest compositions, what Aldous Huxley once described as "the whole range of thought and feeling, yet all in organic relation to a ridiculous little waltz tune".

He somehow manages to turn the laid-back and generally ridiculous hip hop tune into a rowdy bassline basher.

Rogers had dismissed the composition as "ridiculous, the most pitiful tune we'd ever heard".

They were like a favorite TV show that had gone all ridiculous, yet you stayed tuned, hoping that the silly plots would get better.

The message, however, fell short -- without the Auto-Tune and ridiculous lyrics, the song flopped, and things didn't seem to be looking up for Black.

After hearing Bas's impromptu DJ set, I can't listen to the original version of any song without thinking about how there's probably a ridiculous reggae cover of the tune online.