How to Use for a song in a Sentence

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• The museum operators clearly didn’t know its history and sold it for a song, Busha said.
  — Alan Miller, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024
• Catch her in a new music video for a song from the film.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
• The first germ of an idea for a song is usually the best.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
• Love for a song about the worst parts of yourself grows on your heart like a burn on the skin.
  — Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• So that’s what makes my job easy when the director asks for options for a song.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Jan. 2023
• Adults also went door-to-door asking for food and drinks in exchange for a song or dance.
  — CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• Mazin was looking for a song for the two characters to connect over.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
• Matthew had been looking for a song that was Elly’s trigger.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 3 Feb. 2024
• In 2014, two of its lawyers appeared in a video for a song with lyrics that called for killing police officers.
  — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Snagging one of your favorites for a song is one of the best parts of this shopping holiday.
  — Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• He’s also joined onstage for a song with bawdy country singer Trey Lewis.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• Some other thrifty person will pick them up for a song and spend some money at Home Depot to paint them.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• The lusher sound of vibrato just would have sounded off for a song about solitude.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
• The song featured a black and white music video and smashed the records for most streams for a song in both a day and a week on Spotify and Amazon Music.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 11 May 2023
• The song featured a black and white music video and smashed the records for most streams for a song in both a day and a week on Spotify and Amazon Music.
  — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 11 May 2023
• Not bad for a song hatched on JVKE’s laptop and brought to life by a wholesome reunion with his piano teacher.
  — Mike Wass, Variety, 28 Nov. 2023
• Last week, Harry Styles set the high-water mark for weekly streams for a song in 2022 — and just one week later, that record has fallen.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2022
• When TikTok songs become big, one influencer just has an idea for a song.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
• Method Man hammered home a lot of stuff on cadence and delivery, which is important for a song.
  — William E. Ketchum Iii, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
• Musk has argued that right of way could be had for a song by building alongside existing power lines.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2015
• One exception was made for a song that didn’t originally top Billboard charts but hit #1 on the U.K. singles chart.
  — cleveland, 30 July 2022
• During that recession, private equity firms bought up housing for a song and upped the rent.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2022
• There might be a good idea for a song somewhere, but hearing Fido in your speakers gets more than a little bit distracting.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022
• Even for something as left-field as a Chevrolet Express conversion van, a low-mileage example like this won't be had for a song.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2023
• She's usually nominated for a song in a movie that nobody has seen.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 June 2022
• An apt interpolation for a song about claiming what’s yours.
  — Vulture, 9 Dec. 2022
• The left turn scans as triumphant — not just for Bain’s emotional recovery, but for a song that blooms into a singular statement.
  — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2023
• Made with mint and tea tree extracts, the bracing wash controls shine, decongests pores, and gets circulation humming — for a song.
  — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• The track now solely boasts the third-longest reign since Radio Songs began in December 1990 – and claims outright the longest domination for a song by a woman.
  — Gary Trust, Billboard, 12 June 2023
• Not only that, but Keim got him for a song, sending a second-round pick to Houston along with unloading unproductive running back David Johnson and his way-too-hefty salary and a flip of fourth-round picks to complete the fleecing.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024