Vocabulary Word
Word: unison
Definition: unity of pitch (in musical performance); complete accord; Ex. The choir sang in unison.
Definition: unity of pitch (in musical performance); complete accord; Ex. The choir sang in unison.
Sentences Containing 'unison'
``My last supplication of all, is this; and with it, I will relieve you of a visitor with whom I well know you have nothing in unison, and between whom and you there is an impassable space.
They danced to the popular Revolution song, keeping a ferocious time that was like a gnashing of teeth in unison.
Franz felt a shudder run through his veins at observing that the feeling of the duke and the countess was so much in unison with his own personal disquietude.
The unison of opposites to prove, Of the soft wax and diamond hard am I; But still, obedient to the laws of love, Here, hard or soft, I offer you my breast, Whate'er you grave or stamp thereon shall rest Indelible for all eternity.
Again her large bonnet (very disproportionate to the figure) went backwards and forwards, in her swaying of her little body to and fro; while a most gigantic bonnet rocked, in unison with it, upon the wall.
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