Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "sing" is om musikale klanke met die stem voort te bring, veral op 'n beheerde en stemmige wyse, tipies met woorde. Dit kan ook verwys na die handeling om 'n klank of reeks klanke met 'n mens se stem te maak, of om iets op 'n bepaalde toon of manier uit te druk. Daarbenewens kan "sing" beteken om inligting of bewyse oor iets te gee, soos in "die data sing van 'n naderende ramp."
1. We can all sing, but most of us sound pretty crappy.
2. The lady clearly thought she could sing, and, clearly, she could not.
3. At funerals, poetry is increasingly used to sing the words the heart is too wounded to speak.
4. When I sing, I feel free, and everything else seems to fade away.
5. Those who sing them today, lived them, but there is one that stays with us.
6. And moreover, I can tell you, all that he sings is out of his own head for I have heard them say he is a great scholar and poet and what is more, every time I see him or hear him sing I tremble all over, and am terrified lest my father should recognise him and come to know of our loves.
7. He decreed that no blind man should sing of any miracle in verse, unless he could produce authentic evidence that it was true, for it was his opinion that most of those the blind men sing are trumped up, to the detriment of the true ones.
8. All they seemed to care about was how to sing her to the heights of pleasure with every soft touch and urgent plunge into her.
9. Then she would be obliged to ease his pain with her breath and sing him to sleep, using a song that had become as much a part of her as her own thoughts.