Sentence examples for slip songs from inspiring English sources

From the 16th century until the end of the 19th century, broadsides, known also as street ballads, stall ballads, or slip songs, were a lively commodity, providing employment for a troop of hack poets.

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Is anyone astonished, then, to note that the great Howard Hawks -- the most grown-up as well as the most romantic, the most genre-happy yet the most formally radical of Hollywood directors -- was slipping songs into pictures from the start?

Every year he slips song titles into Springwatch, beginning with his beloved Smiths and continuing this year with David Bowie.

It gives her the chance to slip alternative songs into encounters with mainstream guests but Ezra doesn't play ball and goes down the Kings Of Leon route.

It is rare, nowadays, to see a hero break into song onscreen — and rarer still to see him slip into song as if into something comfortable.

The shop also carries an instrument called the Music Maker ($35), a small harplike gadget that allows the user to slip a song sheet under the strings, pluck them and make even the tone-deaf sound musical.

In their two sets, the Stringdusters slipped in songs by U2 and the Police, as well as rootsier tunes from the Band and Bob Dylan; they also ventured occasionally into drones and Middle Eastern modes, and they subtly applied effects like reverb to vary the instrumental tones for different songs.

"There's always the odd ones that slip into my songs.

Tightly wound guitar vamps propel his songs, slipping complexities behind affable melodies.

Spellbound bodies slip into the song's shuffling rhythm, and Toubin reaches for the next bit of black magic.