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Recent Examples of chorus
Noun
But for a band that distrusts pop blandishments, Cola have gotten a lot less coy about going for choruses that grab you and melodies that stick.—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026 And then, crackling across the radio in both Gemini 7 and Mission Control, just nine days before Christmas of 1965, came a tiny, tinny chorus of Jingle Bells, performed live, on a small harmonica and small set of bells—contraband Schirra had smuggled aboard his ship.—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 May 2026
Verb
These insects will mate and chorus for at least six weeks before the 17-year cycle starts again.—Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2024 Most of the monitoring is done during spring evenings, when male toads gather to chorus and breed.—Dallas News, 2 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for chorus
Fresh from their Spain tour, the choir will be performing a variety of American choral classics and gospel selections.
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Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2026
The honorees for the night are the late Pat Bass, LACHSA’s gospel choir director, retiring LACHSA theater department chair Lois Hunter, and Jerry Freedman, a longtime social studies teacher at the school.
In our conversations with CEOs and political leaders, that lack of clarity is the common refrain.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
15 May 2026
Upon booting the game up, a swift run of horns plays the main theme, a magnificent game-spanning refrain which appears during the mightiest moments, from title screen to credits.
Within seconds of the Yankees recording the final out of Monday’s 12-1 win over the Orioles, John Sterling’s signature victory call bellowed from Yankee Stadium’s speakers.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
5 May 2026
After Philadelphia fans bellowed the chant as a show of confidence during the 76ers’ Play-In Tournament victory to set up this series, Celtics fans responded in kind.
The young, mostly male group did their chanting under the eye of Israeli police, who had cordoned off parts of the plaza for journalists to cover the event safely.
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Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
The House floor vote in Nashville was met with raucous protests by activists yelling from the balcony of the visitors’ gallery and from Black lawmakers who stood at the front of the chamber linking arms in prayer as protesters sounded air horns and chanted slogans against the new map.