How To Use Off-key In A Sentence
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The brass band plays off-key.
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Behind her, Darren sang along in his husky, happy, off-key voice.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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She sang two lines of Je Ne Regrette Rien in an off-key voice.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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The actor's performance is horridly off-key - his screaming antics would be more appropriate for a cartoon villain.
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What made it fun was that we would yell - rather than sing the songs – deliberately off-key . Sometimes we would use cartoon voices.

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How lovely and strange the gangly spires of trees against a thickening sky as you drive from the library humming off-key?
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She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid.
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Allegedly, because of the lip-synch-proof demand from organizers of SF Gala in recent years, some actors decided to quit the Gala due to their singing-off-key during the rehearsal.
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Eyes closed, she danced with the woman in her memory, slipping into her own off-key hum to accompany her steps when the words failed her.
Healing the Highlander
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He wouldn't go to sleep and I'd just go from one song to the next in this flat, off-key voice.
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People lined the bar, singing an off-key song about the wonders of the sea, raising their tankards of ale and slopping the liquid every which way, drenching those next to them.
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I didn't recognize the name and I was struck by something off-key in Sally's tone.
BETTER THAN THIS
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This bill is off-key, out of tune, and even if the Labour Government flatly denies it, its shrill crescendos of fortissimo make no difference to the fact that it is prescribing State control.
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They know what mood I am in from the music that I play on the radio and the off-key, wrong lyrics that I belt out.
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She sang two lines of Je Ne Regrette Rien in an off-key voice.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Once every candle burned brightly, an off-key chorus began to sing ‘Happy Birthday.’
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The off-key singing of the congregations at Church and the reels and jigs of the Connecticut fiddle players enchanted him.
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“You can have whatever you like,” Dyme sang off-key.
Real wifeys
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Someone upstairs was singing off-key.
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The off-key singing of the congregations at Church and the reels and jigs of the Connecticut fiddle players enchanted him.
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Given that China's market for consumer goods is growing by better than 13 percent annually — and luxury-goods sales by 25 percent — an off-key name could have serious financial consequences.
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The music sounded like the tape was being stretched producing appalling sounds and off-key, discordant, unpleasant noises.
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But we sang along anyway, and there were no off-key notes or minor chords, not even from Mama, who quite simply could not carry a tune.
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Moe was having fun banging the drums and singing off-key.
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Dressing up "discordance" with the term "diversity" no more makes off-key music sound better than it makes gutteral sewer commentary tolerable.
About my proposed Titus recording.
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This movie's main thrust is really nothing more than bareness interspersed with double entendres, pseudo witty banter, personal attacks, comic quips, and horribly off-key crooning.
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A chorus of giggles promptly followed the off-key ditty.
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A few stand watching a brave soul with a karaoke machine belt out an off-key tune.
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And another plaintive dawn bugle reveille, executed off-key but with authoritarian certainty, all but muffled by the pounding marching drums from the cliff-side army barracks overlooking the beach.
Hidden time revisited - Puerto Escondido
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Talent night at the local elementary school tends to conjure up images of kazoo players, off-key warblers and budding baton twirlers, all with big dreams and stars in their eyes.
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How we watch some hundred billion stars slide left to right each night while coyotes wail off-key and bats dip and swoop in their nightly smorgasbord.
Alice d’alessio | days we are given « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The callers recounted tedious vows, painfully off-key songs warbled by bride and groom, the inclusion of the groom's dog in the ceremony.
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She bade me goodnight and walked away, swaying only slightly, and humming an off-key tune under her breath.
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The audio foreground, however, is dominated by the insipid, warbling, and off-key sound of Gareth Gates murdering a late 1970s disco classic.
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The off-key singing of the congregations at Church and the reels and jigs of the Connecticut fiddle players enchanted him.
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The recorder came in with an adagio-like slowness and gravity, momentarily wobbled off-key, then recovered.
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Worried that the normal partisan overtones at the State of the Union address would seem off-key after the Jan. 8 shooting that targeted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, some lawmakers sat with their colleagues across the aisle to listen to President Obama's speech.
Odd Couples at the State of the Union
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We don't see that playing out of tune or singing off-key is revolutionary.
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Almost immediately following the vintage Universal logo (nice touch) and subsequent verbal recap of the zombie world situation, we are greeted with a macabre, hilarious off-key (to say the least) undead oompah band.
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In this case, it sounds as if the President blew off the question so, if it was orchestrated, the orchestra was off-key.
Reliable Sources: Journos spar over Obama presser question
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The slightest off-key note and the whole story can go awry.
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The woman told Mary in a whisper to pinch it often, and to sing to it off-key all the time because the Good People can't stand either bad manners or bad music.
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And then of course, there are the public ordinances forbidding off-key driveway serenades.
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Does he see how I look down my nose at the enthusiastic choir member who sings off-key?
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In the decades since, the record's off-key vocals and hapless rhythms have made it both a musical punch line and, remarkably, a contrarian rallying point for inscrutable art.
Sour Notes On Stage
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The result: this guy steps up to the mic and proceeds to deliver the most aggressively incompetent, indelibly off-key and memorably gonzo version of the Queen song ever performed in the history of the universe.
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Why are the gospel tunes in the soundtrack so annoyingly off-key and out of synch?
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With that he turned up the radio to an old eighties rock song, and we started our off-key duet in very loud voices.
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A compelling storyteller with many voices lyric, operatic and diaristic, Ms. Snyder is often provocative; occasionally didactic or off-key.
The Lady of the Wild Things
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The band sounded slightly off-key.
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At one point, he was plainly off-key.
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I didn't recognize the name and I was struck by something off-key in Sally's tone.
BETTER THAN THIS
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He had on his headset and sang along in his off-key fashion.
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The unconscionable truth fused his mind, body and soul in a foreign uncertainty and the rhythm that had heretofore produced harmony in his life was now off-key.
Who Said It Would Be Easy
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It is like hearing lovely melodies sung off-key.
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It was kind of neat to see four women all lined up singing, but the off-key harmonizing didn't grab me.
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Then suddenly, in a slightly hoarse and off-key voice, he sang the lullaby that Mom used to sing to me.
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If the background music was distinctly off-key, so too were far too many aspects of the meal.
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Chests are bosomy, waists are tucked, and with impressive machines and gadgets, recording studios are able to make even the most off-key voice a pleasure to hear.
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He multi-tracks the vocals on this song and the off-key harmonics of his offbeat voice work brilliantly.
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She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid.
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Add off-key electronic music, and you begin to have some idea of how annoying this is.
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Behind her, Darren sang along in his husky, happy, off-key voice.
AN OLDER WOMAN
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What made it fun was that we would yell - rather than sing the songs – deliberately off-key . Sometimes we would use cartoon voices.