Well, I don't think so said in a sing-songy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Swedish and Norwegian are kind of sing-songy languages. From Wordnik.com. [Stockholm] Reference
Loved the sing-songy way she said, “Still hating you…”. From Wordnik.com. [PodCastle » PC011: Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery] Reference
His formal speeches can come across as sing-songy and melodramatic. From Wordnik.com. [O'Malley is sworn in to second term as Md. governor] Reference
There's, you know, some people are very sing-songy in the way they speak. From Wordnik.com. [Exploring the Soul of Raul Midon] Reference
"Mike and the Fat Man" has a better, more sing-songy CBS primetime show feel to it. From Wordnik.com. [Steele: Cutting Off Pro-Stimulus Republicans "Absolutely On The Table For Me"] Reference
"Unfortunately, it was accompanied by claps and a sing-songy chant," Brendan wrote me. From Wordnik.com. [Who started the "We Want Pittsburgh" chant?] Reference
We're not going to let any Queen-cursed, pointy-eared, sing-songy, gimpy-legged elves take our bridge!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Krynn]
So I started to do my sing-songy thing that I like to do while waiting in line to use the voting booth. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
And could poets PLEASE learn to stop using "poet voice" -- that awful, breathy, sing-songy voice -- shudder. From Wordnik.com. [Cri de coeur ...] Reference
Of course they are smiling and look enthusiastic, Bill is telling them about his plans in a sing-songy voice. From Wordnik.com. [16 « April « 2008 « Adventures in Juggling] Reference
They're long, sing-songy, stylized, unsophisticated (yeah, right!), and VERY canny in the use of these elements. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-03-28] Reference
"He keeps contact with many of his former students," Lorna told him, in the sing-songy tones of her Kingston accent. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
"It's happening," she said, sing-songy, on her way to the freshly de-beached table where the C.H. had seated himself. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
You can be talking to them on the phone, in a sing-songy voice, "I met a cute boooooy last night!", and they'll say, "So?". From Wordnik.com. [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference
Fergie's delivery of her "lines" is so sing-songy chowderheaded that you think she might be trying to teach lemurs to speak. From Wordnik.com. [it's that little souvenir of a terrible year] Reference
Such variation in level of stress, together with just a few substitutions, is what keeps the iambic verse from sounding sing-songy. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet] Reference
My mom detested his sing-songy rhyming style and the general oddness of his art, and so there were never any Seuss books in our home. From Wordnik.com. [Simple Tricks and Nonsense: March 2004 Archives] Reference
We heard some sing-songy, grade B speechifying and anointed him another MLK -- another black man come to wash America's dirty moral linen. From Wordnik.com. [Leonce Gaiter: On MLK and What Obama Is Not] Reference
National Public Radio's Juan Williams said that Jindal's presentation was "sing-songy" and that Jindal looked "childish" compared to Obama. From Wordnik.com. [David Goldstein: The Minority Response] Reference
The sing-songy opening sequence that she likened to. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
One of them actually had the sing-songy undertone of. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Door] Reference
It's very sing-songy, and nobody's dealing with content. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment - Female First] Reference
Preferably something with very few big words and a sing-songy rhyme. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Rather, Persians are gentle and playful with quiet, sing-songy voices. From Wordnik.com. [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference
It began sort of sing-songy and measured in stops, like a poetry piece. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
I found the speech rushed, sing-songy and perfunctory, delivered by rote. From Wordnik.com. [First Read] Reference
And John Noble's sing-songy, hyper-quirky delivery started working my last nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Lesson No. 6: Motherese (the sing-songy way we talk to babies) is good, experts say. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from Tuscaloosa News] Reference
Imagine Marcello's contributions delivered in a sing-songy tone, with an Italian accent. From Wordnik.com. [Sicily Scene] Reference
Ladies Detective Agency series has a sing-songy vibe to it and the books are quite short. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
But will it be enough to stop Dev's crazy acting style and his strange sing-songy intonation. From Wordnik.com. [Corrieblog] Reference
Every meeting about the third man up was Isaac, and we had to watch him wave, and rant, and go sing-songy. From Wordnik.com. [Laddie; a true blue story] Reference
A new study suggests that people whose speech is most sing-songy may have a stronger ability to empathize with others. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
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