to sing along
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1.4
- phrasal verb
- /sɪŋ əˈlɔŋ/
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- During the concert, the crowd began to sing along with the band as soon as their favorite song started.
- sing along to music
- sing along to songs
- children sing along
When we women spouse these views when we're singing along to songs such as what?
- When we women spouse these views when we're singing along to songs such as what?
- And singing really helps, even singing along when I'm playing.
- If you don't know the words to the song, sing along.
- This would be when we would have our Christmas tunes on and we would sing along.
- I can see myself in a stadium. I can see people singing along. I can see that this happens
- I can only say it when I'm when I'm quoting a self-righteous, close minded shithead or singing along with Kanye.
- Likes to sing along, likes to shoot his gun, Knows not what it means, knows not what it.
- They flew from their perch on the sand table and, tearing to their haunches, began to sing along with Primer.
- What, what, what problem could possibly emerge from singing along mate?
- And I remember when I wrote Doomed after I sing the first pass of it, and it was a gibberish pass of me just singing along to the quartz.
Examples
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Loneliness sat next to her in the car, singing along with the radio, keeping her company.
Fiction book (1992) -
Sing along with us in joy and celebration.
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I told you we like to sing along.
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Come on, girl, sing along now.
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Now, this is the part of the evening where I want you all to sing along.
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All he wants is to sing along with a song he knows.
Fiction book (1996) -
He really needs you to sing along.
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They'd even been singing along to the radio together, the way they used to.
Fiction book (1999) -
He was singing along with the orchestra.
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I rolled down the windows of the Falcon and sang along with the radio, loud as I could.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To make musical sounds with your voice
1
3.4
Sing or say something together as a group
To make small cheerful sounds along with music
How Participatory
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to sing together with other people or with music' is directly composed from 'sing' (to perform a song) + 'along' (together/with), so the sense of accompanying others or music is transparent. This verb + particle pattern is common in English (and has parallels in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Sing along comes from the simple image of one person starting to sing and others joining along with the tune. That's why it means 'to sing together with other people or with music that is playing'.