Thesaurus results for SUNG

sung

verb

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past participle of sing

as in chanted

to produce musical sounds with the voice it's relatively rare to find actors who can also sing well

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as in intoned

to utter in musical or drawn out tones the cantor sang the prayers before the entire congregation

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as in called

to utter one's distinctive animal sound I can hear a bird singing in the distance

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called
cried

as in informed

to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities once he saw the kind of jail time he was facing, the suspect was singing loud and clear to the police

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Recent Examples of sung But play-by-play announcer Jake Zivin and color analyst Taylor Twellman – limited by their lack of understanding of the song, being sung in Spanish – explained the incident incorrectly as Messi trying to make a gesture of amends. —

Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 The album’s name, Arirang, pays tribute to a treasured Korean folk ballad of the same name, which was famously the country’s first song, sung by Korean men, ever recorded (it was preserved for posterity by American ethnologist Alice Fletcher in 1896). —

Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026 Hot pink has never burned hotter; canary yellow has never sung so readily. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 May 2026 Visitors drift into the exhibition from the surrounding stacks and public spaces, encountering works that ask them to slow down and reconsider the meaning of a line — whether drawn by hand, generated through code, sung as sound, or embedded in systems of migration and surveillance. —

Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026 The song, which is sung in Hebrew, French and English, is about being in a toxic relationship and learning to put yourself first. —

Andrew Jones, NBC news, 16 May 2026 Other notable moments include the return of the original theme song, sung by Raya Yarbrough; the closing of the loop from the pilot episode, showing Jamie was the man outside Claire’s window watching her; and the beautiful forget-me-nots growing near the stones after Jamie touches one. —

Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 15 May 2026 This version is a gentle solo vocal over piano sung by Jessica Rotter. —

Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 15 May 2026 The track blends Afrobeats with Latin Pop, sung mostly in English and a bit of Spanish. —

Rachel Treisman, NPR, 15 May 2026

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This was the strike slogan chanted by the French group’s employees in Italy protesting against the prospective layoffs at the McQueen brand.

— Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 20 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.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 13 May 2026