How to Use music box in a Sentence

music box

noun

• The songs play with simple notes like a small music box.
  — Jim Rossman, Dallas News, 20 May 2021
• The design looks more like an old-school music box, in fact.
  — Mike Richard, Men's Health, 24 Jan. 2023
• Feel free to grab a hand-cranked music box to play a song as people use the machine.
  — Kerry Elson, The New Yorker, 2 June 2021
• The first notes are alone on a piano, almost like a music box.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• This simple task was designed to test which of two pairs of blocks a child would pick to turn on the music box.
  — Sarah White, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2019
• The widow introduces the girl to a strange doll that has a music box in the shape of a piano locked in its chest.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Jubilee was named for the zoo’s baby chimp and had a music box in its tummy.
  — WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• And the incorporation of a music box melody to add to the evocative lyrics?
  — Taylor Weatherby, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017
• There’s a scene where Jimmy Page is sitting there with a music box.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2022
• The sound of a broken music box to my ears could be a crashing piano to someone else.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• His hair has been worn thin after years of petting and moths, but his Swiss music box still works.
  — WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
• All of the music-making turns the Carter household into a full-size music box.
  — James Bash | , oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• The other two music boxes went to Bardeen and Brattain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2022
• The display takes the idea of a ballerina from a music box and puts that into lanterns.
  — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• They were found with two small bags holding clothes, a towel, a flashlight, two phones and a music box.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• The music box allows users to make their own music by downloading an app and placing puffs on the back of the box.
  — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• The music box your grandmother gave you, full of stinking mud.
  — Hannah Cloke, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2019
• This soft, jazzy track opens with a slow fade-in on Sejeong’s pretty vocals over a music box tune.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2017
• Here’s a kalimba, an African thumb piano with metal tines that plink like a music box.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
• The youngest child, Riley, is roaming around in a Grateful Dead T-shirt, playing with a music box.
  — Tessa Love, Outside Online, 16 Jan. 2020
• There was a winding mechanism for both the music box and the wheels that had a distinctive Schuco key.
  — Helaine Fendelman and Joe Rosson, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• His set opened with tones resembling a buzzy music box, with low rumbling drones.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2022
• Bring a bit of nostalgia to your house with an old-fashioned wooden music box.
  — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
• The tinny music in the music box is the theme from Swan Lake -- a ballet where the heroine is imprisoned in the body of a swan, stripped of her identity.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 6 June 2018
• If the waves of Zicatela were a full-size orchestra, the fountain shows in Las Vegas would be a dollar-store music box.
  — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2021
• These are like tiny music boxes that come in silver, two different shades of blue, and, for the fun of it, magenta.
  — By Ellise Pierce photos By Ross Hailey, star-telegram, 6 Sep. 2017
• And, like creating one of the most complicated watches, building the combs for the music box is no easy feat.
  — Roberta Naas, Forbes, 4 May 2022
• Inspiration struck Prakash when his wife brought home a small hand-cranked music box, which pulled a ribbon with holes in it through two sets of pins.
  — Jim Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2014
• In 1949 an engineer at Bell Labs built three music boxes to show off the new transistors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Nov. 2022
• The show's heart-tugging last moments were met with resounding sniffles from the audience, while iconic props such as the Phantom's boat and monkey music box were greeted with whoops and cheers.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Sep 2024