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Example sentences for "serenades"

Lexicographically close words:
serche; sere; serenade; serenaded; serenaders; serenading; serenata; serene; serenely; serener
  1. There were no more serenades and no more letters, and little by little the watch relaxed.

  2. Yes, but why did he get up those serenades and the scandals against Ursula?

  3. The evening serenades began early, for the party was to leave at once.

  4. Meanwhile the camp was astir with the returning youths and maidens, their horses' sides fringed with the long meadow grass, singing plaintive serenades around the circular rows of teepees before they broke up for the night.

  5. He had, moreover, a handsome wife, and "this was an additional reason for our nocturnal adventurers to go and perform their serenades under the harlequin's windows.

  6. Street Serenades He even took part in street serenades by playing the violin.

  7. The consequence of this strict retirement was a great increase of the general interest about her; thence came serenades in her street by night, and promenades by day.

  8. The lady dreamed of music, but slept on, though "the earth turned in her sleep in pain," Earth has heard many serenades and many vows made only to be broken.

  9. So the youth went into society and met the girl he loved, and danced with her so vivaciously and sang serenades with such feeling beneath her window, that at last she felt he was all in all to her.

  10. There were balls, comedies, concerts, and serenades in the groves, and all the gay world met there to hear the news and to discuss it.

  11. Hardly a day passed that there were not serenades at the Tuileries or in the place Royale.

  12. Among the Trasteverini, particularly, these serenades are common.

  13. The discomforts of the night were added to by the cats, which chose our back wall for the most awesome serenades we have ever heard; and also by the plaintive baaing of a sheep tethered in an adjoining yard.

  14. Jan closed the shutters, upon which a number of boys sat down on our doorstep and sang serenades to us for several hours.

  15. Neither was music, loved music forgotten, for it was not only the subject of daily discourse, but in the Riesengebirge itself the powerful serenades of the music chorists of Warmbrunn and Hirschberg greeted their master, Spohr.

  16. They don't sing serenades under windows these days.

  17. Of works for orchestra alone the two Serenades published in 1860 are still the only examples.

  18. The serenades indeed were shared impartially with Mr. Falkirk and Gotham; for Wych Hazel still kept her room in the cottage, and was there by night.

  19. Mr. Falkirk looked on from too great a distance to point his strictures; Gotham's grumbles over the serenades and the cavaliers only helped the excitement.

  20. The second act opens in a chamber in Baptista's house, where Katharine is berating Bianca for accepting serenades from suitors, and abuses her even to blows.

  21. He was everywhere greeted with serenades and ovations.

  22. The barcaroles and serenades peculiar to Venice were, of course, in harmony with the occasion.

  23. It is there that the veglia, or evening rendezvous of lovers, the serenades and balls and feste, of which one hears so much in the popular minstrelsy, take place.

  24. Horace, in the ninth ode of his first book, speaks of the serenades of his days.

  25. Serenades were introduced and sometimes also concluded by a march (39, K.

  26. These two serenades show altogether a marked improvement on the earlier ones, which do not essentially differ from symphonies.

  27. Sir Timothy serenades the newly-mated pair and is threatened by Bellmour, whilst Celinda, who has been watching the house, attacks the fop and his fiddlers.

  28. When a peasant youth serenades his 'nnamurata with an aria, he pays her by common consent the most consummate compliment that lies in his power.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serenades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.