How to Use song and dance in a Sentence

song and dance

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• Alas, the wheels start to come off early on the song and dance front.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
• But the main attraction of Schemitzun are the displays of song and dance.
  — Melanie Savage, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• The meaning of the song and dance has two versions, Leavitt said.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2022
• Each outlandish episode is filled with wicked wit and even busts out with a bit of song and dance.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• George, on the other hand, has done this whole song and dance before.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Sep. 2019
• Dancing to the right tune What’s a ball without a little song and dance?
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• The opening bit was a song and dance with a cabaret singer backed by a small band with a large horn section.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• Put on your favorite song and dance, walk the dog on a slightly longer route, or go for a swim.
  — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021
• Given the chance, Baumbach can’t help making a song and dance of things.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2022
• Better yet, the best way to be fully absorbed in Krishna was through song and dance.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
• Neil Patrick Harris, no stranger to Hollywood, the stage or a good soft shoe, opened the 2015 awards with a song and dance.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• Trump, a rapid-fire lie machine, did his usual song and dance.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• At the end of the assembly, the fourth- and fifth-graders who worked on the gun violence project performed their song and dance for the rest of the school.
  — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2018
• The first image that the word ‘Bollywood’ conjures up is one of song and dance.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• Dad came up in Boston politics and that can be a song and dance show.
  — Fred Bronson, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2017
• So this was more than the usual Bollywood song and dance.
  — Sandip Roy, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018
• The film kicks off before the move west, with a song and dance through Manhattan as Evan sings about the angst of being 13.
  — Carole Horst, Variety, 15 Aug. 2022
• More than 800 cities will spend the day in song and dance on the streets and sidewalks, in parks and on plazas, and at major and not-so-major venues.
  — Nyssa Kruse, courant.com, 18 June 2018
• The viral song and dance sensation hits 30 cities over six weeks.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 9 July 2019
• That led to a high-energy song and dance that set a generic, slightly high-strung tone for the night.
  — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 10 June 2019
• Take all the amazing things about the shows already on this list and then add breaking out into song and dance to it.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 21 Feb. 2020
• Legoland Summer Jam is a song and dance show featuring a brass band.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2023
• If that all sounds like generic plot devices tossed into a stew of song and dance, so what?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2021
• The song and dance spectacular could make its way to screen in season 2.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2022
• The children watched a video about feelings – and how to manage them – before the muppet led them in song and dance.
  — NBC News, 17 Dec. 2020
• Glee Take all the amazing things about the shows already on this list and then add breaking out into song and dance to it.
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2017
• Take the concentration out of the camps / concentrate it on some song and dance.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2019
• The story also includes a plot twist and a song and dance for children to follow along with.
  — Yasmine Askari, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 Mar. 2021
• No one is expecting someone to come out and do a song and dance, either.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 May 2021
• The party features a beauty pageant, a raffle, song and dance — and petty corruption and ineptitude.
  — Emily Tamkin, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024