Sentence examples for without an accompaniment from inspiring English sources

The film breaks with Hollywood custom in its savagery, earning an inevitable 18 certificate as a result, but sticks with tradition for heavily religiose music and the ancient rule reaching back to DeMille that no beating can be administered in the ancient world without an accompaniment of thuggish laughter.

The song broke through a dozen different ceilings because of the first person chorus, but just start with the first forty-five seconds, which is Houston singing without any accompaniment.

They were for Mr. Hardy, in a sense; late in life he had become intolerant of wheat and considered no meal complete without a fiery accompaniment.

Anyone who feels their approximation of the life of 20-something Brooklyn ladies is incomplete without a musical accompaniment can ready their headphones.

But, when he was banned from playing at a high-profile match in England last week, Mr. Cooper also became embroiled in a skirmish from another war — the class war — that haunts the land as society shifts from self-effacement into a newer, more raucous era when, the old guard would argue, enjoyment cannot be achieved without a rowdy accompaniment of noise.

But these new device stats from its Q1 2014 earnings call (that Benedict Evans recently highlighted) show Facebook needs to learn how to be a "mobile-only" company, whose products can stand on their own without a desktop accompaniment.

You use it with two or more people who take turns singing a song (without accompaniment), then compete to see who can best match the first singer, note for note.

Stepping began in black fraternities in the late 1940s and the '50s with members singing a cappella (without accompaniment) and often mimicking the choreographed steps of musical groups such as the Temptations and the Four Tops.

The latter, referred to as NMF-PSA, was designed for transcribing drums from a signal without accompaniment.

It's like eating black pudding without the accompaniment of a full English fry up.

At the time the piece was written, boy choristers sang the soprano and alto voices, and the entire mass was sung a cappella (without instrumental accompaniment).