Sentence examples for singing caught from inspiring English sources

By the 1800s they were all the rage, but their popularity waned after 1850 as choral societies – more sober expressions of community singing – caught the public imagination.

Her singing caught fire during the penultimate number in the program, the "Chopin Waltz" by Joseph Marx.

Too young to appear in nightclubs, he found work as a staff singer at the Grossinger's resort in the Catskills, where his singing caught the attention of Eddie Cantor, who booked him in 1949 on a cross-country show.

A newspaper story from 1841 claims that at age 15, Dixon's singing caught the attention of a circus proprietor named West.

Her singing caught the attention of rock artists Steve Thomas and Jennifer Knapp from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to improve her writing skills.

One afternoon, as Alberto was selling tortillas on the street, his singing caught the attention of two sisters, Leonor and Beatriz Berumen, who, feeling sorry for him, invited Alberto to live with them so they could teach him to read the Bible and nurture his singing.

He was kicked out of Spanish class for putting on headphones and belting songs, and was sent to the choir room, where he had a "Glee" moment: He was given some chorale music to sing, caught the teacher's ear and eye and began making friends.

From the darkness come hoots and roars of merriment and the voice of Ellsworth shouting, "Sing, sing!" Catching a wave of good feeling, Bond surfs through the song with a strong showing of humanity.

'Regular' language-games, such as the astonishing list provided in PI 23 (which includes, e.g., reporting an event, speculating about an event, forming and testing a hypothesis, making up a story, reading it, play-acting, singing catches, guessing riddles, making a joke, translating, asking, thanking, and so on), bring out the openness of our possibilities in using language and in describing it.

After the interval, the members sang catches and glees from the club's extensive music library (now deposited at the Cathedral Archives in Canterbury).

Again it was her ability to act with the voice as much as her singing that caught the attention, though she had to battle with the veteran maestro's fast and inflexible tempi.