How to Use aria in a Sentence

aria

noun
  • For a note on the late Carlisle Floyd — and his hit aria — go here.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 11 Oct. 2021
  • What could the bright bounce of the Four Tops have in common with a Mozart aria?
    New York Times, 7 Jan. 2021
  • If the Fat Lady’s about to sing, Drew Brees isn’t hanging for the aria.
    Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • But few of us would dare sing an aria in public, or even a folk song.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The Spirit mouthed her aria to Aeneas while DuMelle sang.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Then, we are left with strings that feel plucked from the saddest yé-yé tracks and Maria Callas arias.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The aria ends with an off-stage choir chanting Psalm 104 in Hebrew.
    Mary Spencer, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
  • As the cat moves, the sound shifts and changes, evolving from ethereal arias to scratchy white noise.
    Melissa Locker, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Rebers spent most of 2017 working through a binder of tenor arias to see which would fit him.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2018
  • With the driver's window down, the switchover sounds like a karaoke version of a Ferrari V-8 aria.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • These variations are grouped in threes, and each one, like the aria, is 32 measures long.
    Barbara Jepson, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The physicists scanned the aria in lines just 50 microns across, taking about eight hours per page side.
    Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2013
  • This isn’t about forcing yourself to go to the opera when an aria only gives you a headache (or puts you to sleep).
    Theresa Tamkins, SELF, 3 May 2024
  • No chance Roger would note any of this midway through his mugging aria.
    Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • Zachary Wilder, the tenor, was effective as the Evangelist, less so in his arias.
    James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The arias didn’t quite land, to judge by the polite but not thrilled reactions of the children sitting near me.
    David Allen, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Stuff like leitmotifs, or the way that certain set pieces feel like arias.
    Simon Abrams, Esquire, 8 June 2016
  • Tosca famously sings in her gorgeous Act 2 aria, lived for art, and lived for love.
    Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2022
  • That aria was a joy, but so indeed was the entire performance.
    Joe Banno, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • My spirit was trembling with a sort of Viking sublime, a Wagner aria of the soul.
    New York Times, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The staging sometimes treats these speeches like favorite arias in a beloved opera.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
  • An 86-year-old man once climbed up the tower, got to the top, and started singing an Italian aria a capella and was weeping.
    Neal Leitereg, Forbes, 7 June 2021
  • About halfway through the first part of the aria, Teicher stepped onto the platform and silently spun.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2022
  • And just as Florencia will never find her Cristóbal, the aria never finds its heart.
    Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Every aria on the disc is a rarity and every one is a winner.
    Patrick Neas, kansascity, 1 July 2017
  • Sometimes they are asked to name the opera from which a familiar-sounding melody of an aria has been taken.
    James Barron, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
  • The arias are sung by Heather Buck, a soprano, and Randall Scotting, a countertenor.
    James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 26 June 2017
  • French opera at the end of the 17th century had not yet become codified with recitatives and arias.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • As performers overhead enveloped the audience in arias, Sbrana felt like the Hulk was pulling on the tendons in the right side of her neck.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • And so a Vivaldi aria erupts on the soundtrack, and before long Jon opens his mouth and begins to sing, in a lovely, quavering falsetto.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024

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