How to Use show tune in a Sentence

show tune

noun
  • The elephant isn’t just in the room, it’s sprawled across both of your laps, singing show tunes.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Broadway Raves are the new big night out for young lovers of show tunes.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Put on your favorite show tunes and ready your jazz hands; here’s how to watch.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
  • Put on your favorite show tunes and ready your jazz hands; here’s how to watch.
    — Jessica Gelt, Boston Herald, 14 June 2024
  • Her son loved anime, show tunes, and drinking pop out of the side of his mouth.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 30 May 2024
  • Rock out to your favorite show tunes at Metro Music Hall.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Come for the relatable jokes about Throat Coat Tea and show tune references; stay for the adorable young cast.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 26 May 2023
  • Cooking dinner with friends at the house can be followed by singing show tunes video karaoke style at the Pavilion.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The singer trained in opera as a soprano and was only allowed to belt out a Disney song or show tune at the end of her lessons.
    — Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Our repertoire includes pop songs, show tunes, folk and world music.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The group of 30 jammers will be learning music from Broadway and other show tunes.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025
  • But there are also numbers that approach the hummable quality of show tunes.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But in the end, Mackintosh isn’t wrong, that most — maybe not all — of these show tunes work as stand-alones… especially the tear-stirrers.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
  • One night this summer, Alicia Keys fell asleep listening to show tunes.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • After that first encounter, Ms. Dupuy would hear Ms. Sullivan through the apartment’s walls, singing — show tunes?
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • Warm up those pipes to sing along to your favorite show tunes with fellow theater geeks and musical theater lovers.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The only things the trial lacked were show tunes and a glowing marquee, and Awkward Productions is fixing that.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The free concert, directed by Carl Allison, features pop, country music, soft rock and show tunes from across the decades.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • This parent yaps cluelessly as their child eats twigs, digs ditches, climbs a tree, impales himself on a chain link fence, and splays himself across the third base line singing show tunes.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The Tony-winning performer belts out Broadway show tunes and American classics.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The Grammy-winning singer draws on her more than 50 albums of folk, rock, show tunes, standards and original compositions.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • After discovering Taylor Swift at age 13, Alexx decided to shift from show tunes to writing pop songs.
    — Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Which is to say, the songs by Cinco Paul that propel the story are melodically and lyrically adjacent to show tunes viewers already know.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • Then the stories of Trump’s pre-arrest celebrations came rolling in (show tunes and fist pumping were reportedly involved).
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The family ensemble even won over show tune skeptic Mandel with its lively performance and tightknit bond.
    — USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Small and observant, Mars lived with her parents and extended kin in a Victorian house with a library and a piano, around which the family gathered to sing show tunes.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Can a set of show tunes and Great American Songbook standards, rendered with a healthy measure of respect and virtuosity, also be a punk-rock show?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Musical compositions The latest crop of compositions spans the era's jazz standards, show tunes, pop music and more.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
  • His new music is possessed by an even more flamboyant theatricality, channelling post-punk, jazz fusion, prog, and even show tunes.
    — The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
  • As George Santos continues to dig himself deeper and deeper into the ongoing scandal about his many (many) lies, viral comedian Randy Rainbow is happy to sit back and watch … and yes, sing a show tune or two.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2023

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