CHORUS in a Sentence

Learn CHORUS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

46 example sentences for CHORUS, such as:

1. The chorus peaked over the still earth.
2. They teed off the program with a female chorus.
3. The din in front swelled to a tremendous chorus.
4. Tom sang the verses and everybody joined in chorus.
5. Never before have I heard this song sung in chorus.

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 Meanings and Examples of CHORUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
chorus
 n.  a large organized group of singers, especially one that performs together
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  The doctor's letter was the first of a chorus of indignation that was beginning to be heard all over the South against speculators, profiteers and holders of government contracts.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Always the rising chorus swelled: "We are hungry, your wife, your babies, your parents."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  When the night was still, it was too still--as though the tree frogs, katydids and sleepy mockingbirds were too frightened to raise their voices in the usual summer-night chorus.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  This they would sing, as a chorus, to words which to many would seem unmeaning jargon, but which, nevertheless, were full of meaning to themselves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  The din in front swelled to a tremendous chorus.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  There was silence save for the chanted chorus of the trees.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  The chorus peaked over the still earth.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  The voices of the cannon were clamoring in interminable chorus.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
9  Look, there's the chorus, the villagers, coming on now, between the trees.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  While the chorus was sung, the picnickers assembled.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
11  And so saying, he reached the harp, and entertained his guest with the following characteristic song, to a sort of derry-down chorus, appropriate to an old English ditty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  "Now, that is not ill sung," said Wamba, who had thrown in a few of his own flourishes to help out the chorus.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
13  He came into the room and nodded abstractedly to Wildeve, his lips still parted, and his features excruciatingly strained in the emission of the chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
14  Yet Thomasin occupied Mrs. Yeobright's thoughts but slightly as she looked up the valley of the heath, alive with butterflies, and with grasshoppers whose husky noises on every side formed a whispered chorus.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
15  Eluding Jordan's undergraduate who was now engaged in an obstetrical conversation with two chorus girls, and who implored me to join him, I went inside.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  Allow me to join the chorus of congratulations upon your recent marriage.
2  Bill sang the verses and everyone joined in the chorus.
3  Tom sang the verses and everybody joined in chorus.
4  I'll sing the verses and I'd like you all to join in the chorus.
5  They teed off the program with a female chorus.
6  Their voices blend marvelously as they sing in chorus.
7  Caroline sang two verses and the chorus of her song.
8  Never before have I heard this song sung in chorus.
9  'But who is to give the prizes?' quite a chorus of voices asked.
10  Whenever he heard a song with a lively chorus, Sol could never refrain from joining in.
11  Auditioning for the chorus line, Molly was an indubitable hit: the director fired the leading lady and hired Molly in her place!.
12  The papers all chorused the praises of the positive suggestions of the government.