How to Use songbook in a Sentence

songbook

noun

• Just the resonance of his work, the width and depth of his songbook.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 27 Apr. 2022
• There is a song leader and there's a songbook with like 900 songs in there.
  — Sid Evans, Southern Living, 1 June 2021
• Your ticket also gets you a link to a PDF of a songbook with all the lyrics.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2020
• Nelson’s first songbook has all the doodles of a child’s arts and crafts project.
  — Jason Mellard, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
• His songs are as deep and crazy as the Beatles songbook.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2023
• Also, Trump appears to be singing from the same songbook.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2018
• This week, the queens will all be performing a group and solo piece from the beloved Drag Race songbook.
  — oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2022
• Luke Combs is taking a page out of Luke Bryan‘s songbook and living life to the fullest by huntin’, fishin’ and lovin’ every day.
  — Nicole Sands, PEOPLE.com, 2 May 2018
• There is a connection to the songbook of Billy Joel, whom Schlesinger admired.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2020
• In all, this work stands as a high point in Kahane’s songbook and a tantalizing hint of what may yet be ahead.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2019
• His own songbook has been predicting his death for decades.
  — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Mar. 2023
• One deviation from the Joel songbook was a tribute to the late Tina Turner.
  — USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• These days, though, C.C.R.’s songbook can feel freshly freed—as if those old songs had been waiting for us all along to show up and need them again in present tense.
  — David Cantwell, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2022
• The subject, now 79 years old, does not appear, which is hardly a shock, but neither is the show a songbook in the customary sense.
  — Wsj Arts, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Take a generous helping of tunes from the great American songbook and the best of Broadway.
  — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 11 May 2018
• Springsteen and company kicked off their first tour in six years on Feb. 1, with a set list full of hits from a near 50-year songbook of rock classics.
  — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
• In his decades-deep songbook, his lyrics rarely feel like vehicles for moving melody.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2020
• Tony Bennett was at the piano, singing the American songbook.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• But there, Charles was led to Nashville in the process of looking for a different classic songbook to cover.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024
• Here are 12 magical moments in the Sinéad O’Connor songbook.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 26 July 2023
• Looking dapper in his kilt, Roger passes out some old songbooks and teaches the class a few Gaelic melodies.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 22 July 2023
• This year’s entry could be straight out of a Britney Spears songbook (Glory era, but nonetheless) and could have a huge stage show to match.
  — Lindsey Weber, Vulture, 22 May 2021
• And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies?
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
• The 76-year-old singer was still exploring his songbook for new meanings, treating it not as an immutable canon but a road map to who knows where.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
• One day, my dad took home an acoustic guitar and a Beatles songbook.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2023
• In the scene, Frank is sitting down at a piano and discovers a Linda Ronstadt songbook.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 30 Jan. 2023
• By the Seventies, Costa had already made a name for herself as a promising guardian of the Brazilian songbook.
  — Felipe Maia, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
• Looking at Charlotte instantly brought a smile to Princess Kate's face and the little princess gave her mom a grin before both turned back to their songbooks.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 7 May 2023
• This timidity is but one example of the ways in which the show comes up short, both as a feminist text and as a tribute to Spears’s songbook — and, yes, her life.
  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• There's no shortage of people singing the great American songbook.
  — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 9 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024