Adjective : tuneful compositions. From Dictionary.com.
The group starts towards background, leisurely, tunefully singing. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
When they were little, they merely sang it, con brio if not exactly tunefully. From Wordnik.com. [Beginner’s Grace] Reference
Habitual overuse of "um" will get Daddy to humming tunefully right along with you. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CANADIAN EH.] Reference
But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
The wooden steps creaked tunefully; the ancient layers of paint on the banisters were thickly wrinkled. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to the Baby?] Reference
The fresh voices of the young girls and the mellower notes of journeyman or apprentice mingled tunefully together. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
‘She can hardly be named Lizzie, I think, Mary Anne,’ returned Miss Peecher, in a tunefully instructive voice. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
One young officer was thumping the piano right tunefully and a dozen others were rending the atmosphere with joyous song. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lensman]
He grinned, pulled a savage-looking half-ax from somewhere just inside the door, and sauntered down the stairs with it, whistling tunefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
CHRISTGAU: Hayes Carll is what I look for in a singer/songwriter - articulately, tunefully, he's rowdy and good for a laugh - later for the sensitive stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Hayes Carll: Rowdy Rock Finds A Sensitive Side] Reference
With summer at high tide in each heart, it was, as Hippy had remarked, not quite pleasant to be reminded even tunefully that life holds the inevitable autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
The other animals sitting round her took it up, and they sang it three times over — very tunefully, but slowly and mournfully, in a way they had never sung it before. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Farm]
Doug, a derder is an impromptu kazoo-like musical instrument fashioned by placing one's mouth on the end of a toilet paper tube and tunefully going "der-der-der" into it. From Wordnik.com. [Gene's plea: Don't take the heart out of toilet paper] Reference
And trust, when in secret, most tunefully streaming. From Wordnik.com. [The Welcome] Reference
Edgar's voice, more or less tunefully, drifted back. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Harbor] Reference
A single note was held, surprisingly tunefully, by the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
But Nevill was there, cutting flowers and whistling tunefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Silence] Reference
Mr. D.G. Rossetti, ever a sweet singer, warbled thus tunefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Re-echo Club] Reference
Radiance, and as tunefully direct as the famous 1975 Koln Concert. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
They sang some rude chorus right tunefully as they walked, but their. From Wordnik.com. [The White Company] Reference
I can't think when I last heard a person tunefully whistling in the street. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
They sang very tunefully, too, for the girls had fresh voices and true ears. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Mist]
His voice rose tunefully and cheerily above the steady drumming of Blizzard's hoofs. From Wordnik.com. [Kid Wolf of Texas] Reference
He tunefully got off to a start by playing the Charukesi varnam of Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Most tunefully sweet is this voice which affirms ever, for negation belongs to this world only. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
He sang simply and tunefully in the strong voice of one who knew how to pitch an order in the open air. From Wordnik.com. [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference
"Nautilus" is probably too familiar to need quotation; a noble fancy is nobly and tunefully "moralised.". From Wordnik.com. [Adventures Among Books] Reference
The youth complied, and the knight accompanied him as he sang, their voices blending tunefully together. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference
Less tunefully, but equally volubly, a small group of Chinese pro-democracy campaigners from countries as far-flung as. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Its style was more in vogue in the 1970s; since then much contemporary opera has been written more accessibly, i.e., tunefully. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Soon she came singing back -- singing, he thought, as blithely as a lark; just as sweetly and tunefully as any bird one could name. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Garden] Reference
"She sang in a quiet voice, but so clearly and so tunefully. From Wordnik.com. ['The Life of Irene Nemirovsky'] Reference
In the same recitation room that I did, "she rendered tunefully. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
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