How To Use Serenade In A Sentence

No one will kotow to you, or serenade you on a koto; rather, you'll be threatened with celotomy or colotomy, equally uncomfortable, or with banishment to Cotonou or Cotopani. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2
She is not the woman for whose be-dazzlement I must advertise the value of my goods by sweating sonnets to her, or shivering serenades at her, or perpetuating follies for her. The Kempton-Wace Letters
In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect... Strange Bedfellows
Like a streetcorner serenade, it's got all the oooh's, aaah's, handclaps and snaps of classic doo-wop, and yet it somehow remains brilliantly, unwaveringly faithful to the original.
The short Serenades are also quite pretty and Hanson makes the most out of their sugary sentimentality.

ATLANTA — As Aaron Rodgers trotted off the field, savoring another playoff win, he was serenaded with chants of "Go, Pack, Go! Packers Crush Falcons 48-21
The Serenade for Strings contains also a delectable waltz.
A Beach Boys Buddy Holly Electric Light Orchestra symphony serenades your bravado with the blissed out chutzpah it requires to rise above the jellyfish and octopi unfazed. Dream World Ideations
She was physically fragile but he turned on the charm: dancing, chats, moonlight serenades outside her hotel window.
God also wants to be serenaded, so get on your knees and sing about your love for God in whatever cultural mode and genre touches your heart most deeply. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Dorris said they were only firm and true friends; and the tenor of their talk seemed to prove that she was right, for as she turned from the old-time spinnet, where she had been singing the lovely little serenade of Thomas Heywood: -- The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886
There is a wonderful old weeper called Penny Serenade.
Beethoven's seven-movement Serenade begins and ends with an unpompous march.
Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
His seventh and eighth symphonies get an occasional airing, as do the serenade for strings and the robust violin concerto.
If while you are sitting on your porch sipping Margaritas a trio of itinerant musicians serenades you with mandolin, lute, and hautboy, you have no obligation, in the absence of a contract, to pay them for their performance no matter how much you enjoyed it. Need for Recusals by Judges
The serenade, which the French call "aubade", was a gift from above ... as is freedom, as is love. French Word-A-Day:
Weintraub's wife, singer Jane Morgan, serenaded her husband with the tunes "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Big Spender" as hundreds of attendees noshed dessert: chocolate lava cakes and waffle cone sundaes. Pitt, Clooney, Jolie, Crawford, Damon & More At Celeb Bash (PHOTOS)
As she left the stage, Higgins seemed genuinely touched when a small contingent in the crowd serenaded her with a quick verse of "Happy Birthday. Michael Bialas: The Civil Wars, Missy Higgins Show Their True Blue Colors at Folks Fest
They can't wait to get back to the ship, which is serenaded out of the bay by dozens of parked cars tooting their horns.
They strolled out to serenade the pumpkin carvers, grabbing snacks along the way. GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN
The men of the choir are the serenaders and the police officers; more time should have been devoted to blending their sound.
We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies.
Until we're serenaded by the angelic chorus, Krauss is as close to a heavenly voice as it gets.
Very Italian, too, is the "Serenade" with accompaniment à la mandolin, which is the most fetching number in the suite "Captive Memories," published in 1899. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
A fascination with castrati—fueled by her reaction to certain men she met in Italy—leads her to Castlegar, British Columbia, where at a tiny airport she is serenaded by members of the local men's choir and served a surprisingly good bowl of borscht. Far-Flung Journeys Through Song and Prose
And then of course, there are the public ordinances forbidding off-key driveway serenades.
After imbibing enough Christmas cheer, the adults—Bill Styron included—serenaded the children and one another with a repertory of "the dopiest Yuletide songs. A Roaring Literary Lion
His poor control of a decrescendo on a long, high note in the first song rings alarm bells, and his richness of timbre deserts him in Serenade florentine.
As if to foreshadow the war to come, he recorded two of the most popular German lieder that month - Schubert's Serenade and Brahms's Lullaby.
Sangavi in a leather outfit was an eyeful, as she serenaded with two dance numbers.
I knew it would be an elaborate fantasy, a courtship, a serenade.
Suddenly, one lonely songbird pierced the wall of silence with a stunning serenade.
As a student at the National Ballet School in Toronto, I danced Serenade, and my god, that was amazing!
A band member got an extra special birthday treat when his fellow musicians marched up his street and serenaded him.
What more pleasure can there be than putting sound to Mozart in these elegant serenades?
Jack's vocal persona shifts throughout the record - sometimes he yelps, yells and howls, while on other songs, he gently serenades the objects of his affection.
In the interval a blond boy dressed in white serenaded the company on the flute.
No longer would courtly ladies be gently serenaded by love-struck balladeers - The Taming Of The Shrew threw out any notion of wooing and replaced it with a more martial one.
No more gilt harpsichords or violin serenades played to me from outside my bedroom window.
Her fellow nuns, who say Ms. Palden loved to sing and often serenaded them with Tibetan folk songs of the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet, describe how she had sunk into despondency. Resistance on Tibet Is Conundrum for China, Dalai Lama
Majestic) The vineyards that this wine comes from are serenaded by classical music from nearby loudspeakers. Times, Sunday Times
Ross did ask him to discontinue an impromptu serenade of Terri, who was embarrassed and upset by her ex-husband singing love songs to her over the plane's microphone.
I never tire of listening to this serenade.
The scene in which Christie Smith tinkles the keyboard and serenades Mel in his club goes nowhere and adds nothing to the plot.
Such malapropos wise cracks are driven home with a relentlessly upbeat soundtrack which serenades scenes of human tragedy with bouncy, Disneyesque melodies.
Regional Note: Shivaree is the most common American regional form of charivari, a French word meaning "a noisy mock serenade for newlyweds" and probably deriving in turn from a Late Latin word meaning "headache. The WELL: Sugaree
She had chosen ‘Morning Has Broken’ for her serenade.
I can't say it's the best crossover recording "ever made," but I do love Die Singphoniker's "Serenade" (they sing a bunch of Beatles songs as well as "Zair vair bells on zhu hill" from "The Music Man") 3. Salvati dunque e scolpati
The birthday serenade was a big success. Times, Sunday Times
ATLANTA mdash; As Aaron Rodgers trotted off the field, savoring another playoff win, he was serenaded with chants of Packers Crush Falcons 48-21
We'll get out my guitar and serenade her and spend bacchanal evenings under the Navajo moon. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
Daryl Johnston, the most celebrated blocking back on the planet, is serenaded with moose calls anytime he touches the football.
His Serenade to Eve gently pulses in a relaxed style intended to make the lady smile.
The serenade, which the French call "aubade", was a gift from above... as is freedom, as is love. Aubade - French Word-A-Day
Serenade had the most beautiful coloristic touches.
He serenaded us with an exquisite tenor voice - the first time he had ever sang in public.
And another (rather inspired this one) when he serenaded them with a banjo while plucking the theme tune to 1970s hick-horror flick Deliverance.
No one will kotow to you, or serenade you on a koto; rather, you'll be threatened with celotomy or colotomy, equally uncomfortable, or with banishment to Cotonou or Cotopani. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2
It's a compilation of two night-themed serenades by Mozart, a ‘toy symphony’ by his father, and three Mozart-inspired works by composers from the former Soviet Union.
The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench. Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds'
It lay for me, somewhere between the voice and horn of that special performance of Britten's Serenade - rather than the oboe and the cor anglais, its immediate oboistic neighbours.
Whisper sweet nothings in her ear, enchant her with roses and a serenade and woo her and make her swoon.
All the while, I'd be serenaded by the musicians in the street, who continue the long-standing tradition that has given the world rhumba, mambo, and son.
The Blue Valentine poster shows a couple of crazy kids tangled in a loving embrace, and the trailer features a pixieish blond doing a soft shoe while serenaded by a bearded hipster playing... wait for it, wait for it... a ukulele. John Bobey: An Open Letter to the Makers of Blue Valentine
A music historian could comment on the instruments used for serenades and aubades.
Called Serenade, the Victoria Road shop was serving its first customers today.
They serenaded the rape victim inside, cheering a brother on as if it were a football game.
To the innocent nostrils of spring there was caterwauled a filthy serenade. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
He ends with a serenade to eventide among the burning ghats of the Ganges at Varanasi. Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen – review
On her last two birthdays she was serenaded with poems and songs. Times, Sunday Times
There were private yachts, Adriatic liners, all brilliant with illumination, and hundreds of gondolas, bobbing, bobbing, like captive leviathans, bunched round the gaily-lanterned barges of the serenaders. The Lure of the Mask
( "O, che volo d'angello"); her duet with Silvio in the third scene ( "E allor perchè"); the passionate declamation of Canio at the close of the first act ( "Recitur! mentre preso dal delirio"); the serenade of The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
It features two serenades for strings, by Dvorák and Elgar, preceded by Grieg's Holberg Suite.
Shoppers are serenaded with live piano music.
When it comes to impressing your future someone, no amount of borrowed tunes can beat a handmade serenade.
This story is not, and I repeat NOT a romantic fairy tale where the prince brings the princess flowers and serenades her from beneath the bay window of her bedroom.
You need to tell us how you were reciting epic poetry, and making her swoon with a beautiful serenade!
The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench. Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds'
A music historian could comment on the instruments used for serenades and aubades.
His patented miserabilist lyrics are sharper than ever - ‘I wrote your name with fireworks in the sky / But you never turned up to see it’ he intones on ‘Serenade’.
From three strategically located stages, well-known musical groups provide a dancing beat while roving bands serenade the crowd.
Each chapter is presented as a scene, with the characters delivering arias, serenades or laments - again with a modern touch.
She was serenaded by her admirers
The spouses were serenaded by a string quartet from the Juilliard School in New York City as they ate. Michelle Obama Hosts Farm-To-Table Lunch At Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture (PHOTOS)
They waltzed to Tchaikovsky's waltzes from The Nutcracker and Swan Lake, and the Waltz from Dvorak's Serenade for Strings.
Serenaded by an Indian playing a wooden bansuri flute, I felt as pure as I ever have. Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India
The Canadian pair, who have been dating for over a year, cuddled up on a heart-shaped seat while they were serenaded by the gondolier.
A birthday cake plus suitable serenaders were supplied in honour of the birthday of Peter, who was overwhelmed by the whole affair.
The Romance, from 1929, was originally going to be part of a string serenade.
Englishmen and matrons, and thrill societies with their winsome ingenuousness; and who sometimes when unguarded meet an artful serenader, that is a cloaked bandit, and is provoked by their performances, and knows anthropologically the nature behind the devious show; a sciential rascal; as little to be excluded from our modern circles as Eve's own old deuce from Eden's garden whereupon, opportunity inviting, both the fool and the cunning, the pure donkey princess of insular eulogy, and the sham one, are in a perilous pass. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
I dreamed of a man who would serenade me with songs written just for me. Christianity Today
These and many other questions had been asked and thoroughly discussed by the matrons and daughters of Santa Fé, especially by the latter, to all of whom he had made love and sent flowers and serenaded in turn until, out of sheer desperation, they called alternately upon God and the devil to keep or punish this gay Lothario who loved all and yet none, and who gave such exquisite _fiestas_ in his beautiful _hacienda_. When Dreams Come True
Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned. Watching Pablo Sleep
They go round their circle, singing a serenade of welcome to each person in turn. Times, Sunday Times
They go round their circle, singing a serenade of welcome to each person in turn. Times, Sunday Times
I dreamed of a man who would serenade me with songs written just for me. Christianity Today
Ourtwo girls, whom you remember seeing first at Carusis,15at the exhibition of the Ethiopian Serenaders, and whosepeculiarities were the wearing of black fur bonnets andnever being seen in close company with other ladies, were atthe music yesterday. LINCOLN AT HOME
Blue serenades Alice, mouthing the words of the song and eventually Alice joins in, singing Juliet's words.
The birthday serenade was a big success. Times, Sunday Times
If Mr Shue/Matthew was my teacher, I would have serenaded “Stroke you up” to him during all his classes New 'Glee' clips: Will and Rachel do 'Endless Love!' | EW.com
I knew it would be an elaborate fantasy, a courtship, a serenade.
Rochberg's finale, which he calls an alternation between scherzos and serenades, introduces another borrowed style, this time Mahler in rapturous D major starting just over two minutes into the movement.
In the interval a blond boy dressed in white serenaded the company on the flute.
If that seems a fast-fading dream, the pressing imperative is whether to keep faith with a man warmly serenaded by Leeds supporters but barracked by his new public. Gordon Strachan running out of time to revive Middlesbrough's fortunes
However, in both cases it is the serenader who, not being the right lover (and therefore in some way ‘false’), is unable to harness that power.
But don't expect to warm a brandy in front of a log fire serenaded by a piper's lament.
Maybe sing me a serenade and beg for my forgiveness again.
We'll get out my guitar and serenade her and spend bacchanal evenings under the Navajo moon. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies.
World's 9 most ridiculously expensive cars King hearings called a witch-hunt Molly Lewis serenades Stephen Fry on ukulele at Harvard: "Let me have your baby Breaking News: CBS News
The 2001 Australian film, ‘Serenades’, told the story about the Afghan cameleers in outback Australia and their encounter with Europeans and Aborigines.
At the end of the meal he surprised her with a serenade by a gentleman who sang something French to her.
But, I understand, the great disturbers of the room where Mad. de ____ sleeps are two chanoines, whose noses are so sonorous and so untuneable as to produce a sort of duet absolutely incompatible with sleep; and one of the company is often deputed to interrupt the serenade by manual application _mais tout en badinant et avec politesse_ [But all in pleasantry, and with politeness.] to the offending parties. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
In this exclusive clip, the prince serenades his lovestruck companion. Exclusive Video: Neil Patrick Harris Guest Stars on Cartoon Network's Adventure Time
This is an example of a serenata, or ‘serenade’- in this context, a hybrid between a cantata and an opera.
For those who have consulted dictionaries for the word, its typical appearance between serenade and serene may bring a sense of tranquility and unruffled repose.
They go round their circle, singing a serenade of welcome to each person in turn. Times, Sunday Times
Ashburner made a calculation that, counting in the serenades, the inhabitants of Oldport were edified by waltz, polka, and redowa music (in those days the _Schottisch_ was not), eleven hours out of the twenty-four, daily. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
On her last two birthdays she was serenaded with poems and songs. Times, Sunday Times
The first thing that hit him was a wonderful smell; a mouthwatering serenade to his olfactory senses.
Today, groups of students travel around the world in the bohemian fashion of their ancestors singing serenades accompanied by mandolins, bandores, tambourines, and guitars.
Smitten, Freddy later haunts Higgins' house and serenades Eliza with the beautiful melody, ‘On the Street Where you Live’.
The rhythmic beating of hooves, and jingle of the harness fell into sync with the serenade of the forest.
Had English in the morning and the guys 'serenaded' Ms Leong & Mrs Chang with a song by Hoobastank. Babycartercl Diary Entry
Mynah birds and cardinals serenade beach goers and picnickers alike.
From three strategically located stages, well-known musical groups provide a dancing beat while roving bands serenade the crowd.
In the interval a blond boy dressed in white serenaded the company on the flute.
I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices.
Three nights later three violins, a flute, a guitar, and a hautboy began another serenade. Ursula
Majestic) The vineyards that this wine comes from are serenaded by classical music from nearby loudspeakers. Times, Sunday Times
As we ate, a passing gondolier serenaded his passengers.
The delicate serenade ‘Sparrows Over Birmingham’ and the equally touching ‘Rise’ erase the kitsch factor of the previous 40 minutes and nestle into your soul like it was shag carpet.
He is on his way to your place, right now: expect strumming and moonlit serenades outside bedroom windows.
In the 18th century a serenade was a piece of instrumental music of up to ten movements, scored for a small ensemble, usually with a predominance of wind instruments.
It makes me melancholy sometimes to think of such things, and my friends try to cheer me up with impromptu concerts and serenades at my window.
Among the local important festivities is the Carnival, most often in February, which is very popular and begins with the traditional "burial of Bad Humor", the the beautiful floats, costumed and masked groups, followed by "serenades" to the Carnival Queen and the crowning of "The Ugly King" in the Main Plaza. Lake Chapala - a local history
I'd told him on our first date that the most romantic thing to me would be having a guy that couldn't sing serenade me.
I'm serenaded by a chorus of a thousand burning cigarettes Won't make trouble. don't need no fuss. but i'm wounded, old, and i'm treacherous.
Somewhere above meperhaps at the very top of this tower, where the di Caela banner fluttered red and blue and white in the last hour before some steeplejack of a servant clambered up to lower it for the eveninga nightingale began its dark serenade of stars and moons. Virginity
ATLANTA mdash; As Aaron Rodgers trotted off the field, savoring another playoff win, he was serenaded with chants of "Go, Pack, Go! Packers Crush Falcons 48-21
A mother and her young cubs serenade past within yards of the rear of the buggy. Times, Sunday Times
In the interval a blond boy dressed in white serenaded the company on the flute.
You can walk along manicured lawns with free roaming peacocks, experience the luxury of a gourmet meal complete with table-side serenaders, or find a private little jazz salon with an intimate dance floor seemingly made for two.
He said, a gentleman that evening was going to serenade his mistress.
The rondalla, a traditional music ensemble, consists of plucked and bowed string instruments to accompany social dancing and suitors' serenades.
'"Our study provides strong evidence that the" rasp "[a certain electric signal] is a male advertisement call during courtship in this species,' said Wong, noting that the males also serenade females with lower frequency 'creaks.' Archive 2007-06-01
We were serenaded by a string quartet.
In an almost jogging rhythm, the song quickly turned into a ballad in which the audience was serenaded by the saxophone.
I dreamed of a man who would serenade me with songs written just for me. Christianity Today
When the Swedish serenader and ukelelist played some intimate shows back in May, a lot of people were hearing him for the first time.
They serenaded the rape victim inside, cheering a brother on as if it were a football game.
When she emerges fresh faced and sleepy from below deck after a night of passion, greeted by a serenade from the crew, it took my breath away.
The birthday serenade was a big success. Times, Sunday Times
Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
Majestic) The vineyards that this wine comes from are serenaded by classical music from nearby loudspeakers. Times, Sunday Times
On her last two birthdays she was serenaded with poems and songs. Times, Sunday Times
I couldn't have felt more ecstatic if the heavens had opened up and serenaded me with a chorus of angelic voices.

How To Use Serenade In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):