How to Use ditty in a Sentence

ditty

noun

• Play us a little ditty.
• If Cupid can’t do the trick, play this ditty from The Ronettes to shoot your shot.
  — Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
• And these ditties never fail to bring a smile to our face.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 10 May 2023
• That all changed one night in 2019, all because of a ditty from a Disney movie.
  — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
• This feel-good, synth-bumping ditty will have you up on your feet in no time.
  — Paris Close, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2017
• His little ditty brings Katie to tears, which shocks him.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 6 July 2021
• Swift co-wrote the ditty with Del Rey and Antonoff (who also co-wrote 10 other songs on the album).
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Remember that classic campfire ditty, The worms crawl in the worms crawl out/the worms play pinochle on your snout?
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2019
• There was the time Irvine gave Julie Andrews a tour of the zoo, and Andrews sang her a little ditty about the joys of wallowing in the mud.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020
• In the Strand, in Georgian London, the big-haired prostitutes grind their hips and sing ditties about their trade.
  — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
• The Standells may have made more than a few bucks from a little ditty about the Charles River’s pollution.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• The childish playground ditty is at least partly true: Mere words cannot break an arm or bust a nose.
  — Josh Craddock, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
• Vile spends his time alone noodling blues riffs; Barnett comes up with ditties off news headlines.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
• And among it, all was a near-constant request — for the couple to make the ditty into a genuine, streamable song.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• The Southwest meets the celestial — and the stage — in Wes Anderson’s latest ditty.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• The Southwest meets the celestial — and the stage — in Wes Anderson’s latest ditty.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• There’s a little ditty that Texas Christian football fans have been yelling for the better part of the last century.
  — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
• While the actress always has a good story up her sleeve (bowel movements and all), this little ditty takes the cake.
  — Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 19 Dec. 2013
• The best way to experience the forgettable ditty is to dive in headfirst.
  — Christie D’zurillastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• About the last thing to be expected from a songwriter as moody and intense as Lorde was a carefree ditty about fun in the summer sun.
  — John Mayer, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• As the ditty goes: One died, one survived, two de-wedded, two beheaded.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• Everyone has heard of Lizzie Borden, who, according to the ditty, took an ax and smote her parents with four-score-and-one whacks.
  — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• For Foster, the ultra-polished ditty was in a sense business as usual.
  — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• What's a Timberlake show without a little ditty from his boy band days?
  — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Like the 1970s classics, Mr Khan’s ditty is all blue jeans, work boots and American-dream fulfilment.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• Time and cultural changes wrecked the once-glorious wittiness of the dirty ditty.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• Shepherds could not pipe a ditty on them, and poets could not use them as metaphors for the unsubstantiality of life.
  — The Economist, 31 Dec. 2019
• Indeed, Coupe's on-air ditty had sparked plenty of blowback by Tuesday.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 1 May 2018
• The band transforms the rebel sock-hop ditty — which gripes about getting busted when trying to get some action at the drive-in — by pumping it up with a swift tempo and lots of electric frills.
  — Christa Titus, Billboard, 5 July 2017
• The summer of 2023 somehow feels tailor-minted for the throwback dance anthems and funk ditties that play like a back-to-life soundtrack to these post-pandemic days.
  — David Hochman, Forbes, 16 July 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024