Use of the word strains in a sentence example

strains

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He could hear the strains of some lost cowboy lover coming from Fred's room, a sure sign the door to the old man's room was open. [Please select]

They gave the preliminary strains, and the dancers formed the semicircle. [Please select]

” Doctor Armstrong’s residence was brilliantly lighted, and the strains of a waltz stole across the lawn cheerily. [Please select]

And so the conclusion was forced upon me that both strains emanated from the same throat, that each vocalist was its own respondent. [Please select]

From within came the sound of music, the strains of a hymn, words of prayer. [Please select]

The organ burst into the strains of the Doxology and the crowd rose. [Please select]

The strains of the national hymn suddenly burst from the crowd, and they rose en masse singing it with triumphant peal. [Please select]

She could hear the sweet strains of the organ in the church and the soprano singing the Gloria. [Please select]

It was the swaying strains of the dance, and it would have been soothing to anyone, whose mind was not forced elsewhere. [Please select]

There was a dare-devil lilt and sway to the flippant strains and Aunt Agatha covered her face with her hands. [Please select]

By an instinct in each of them they stood listening for a moment to the last strains of the opera. [Please select]

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