chorus

tanssiryhmä

lausua kuorossa

kreikkalainen kuoro

kuoro

kertosäe A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece
A group of people in a play or performance who recite together.
A group of singers; singing group who perform together.

The performance of the chorus was awe-inspiring and exhilarating.

''The catchiest part of most songs is the chorus.

Of additional interest is the riff in the second chorus, which was later copied by Joe Garland and recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra as "In the Mood," becoming the biggest hit of the Swing Era.

Jazz solos in the 1920s are much more about variety and discontinuity than unity and coherence. The explosive introduction, the instrutable and tender scat-clarinet dialogue, the spritely piano chorus, and the majestic trumpet chorus—constrast is far more important than unity.

A chorus of crickets

A chorus of whiners

a chorus of shouts and catcalls

In the middle of the little woody bay, or rather basin, which received the scanty waters of the stream, an armed sloop lay at anchor, and he heard the din of license and carousal on board,—the hasty oath—the hearty laugh—and the boisterous song, chorussed by a score of rough voices, which made the bay re-echo.

(..) soon they streamed ashore, fresh-faced young sailormen in small and large parties directed by ship's officers and Russian embassy guides. They drove to London, to Salisbury Cathedral, to Windsor Castle, chorusing sea chanteys and waving at girls.

The devilish host chorused a paean of victory as they swarmed back.

Elsewhere, within the walls of other charity houses, orphans' voices chorused hymns or recitations from Scripture (..)

(..) I could not even affect to join in the stereotyped "Oh, thank you!" which was chorused around me

The animals crowded round the van. "Good-bye, Boxer!" they chorused, "good-bye!"

The Cottons chorused grateful acknowledgement.

From Peking to Berlin the rulers of the Communist world dutifully chorused delight at Khrushchev's coup.

Again the women chorussed their approval.

When I asked that question in the House recently, a number of Tel Aviv's little echoes in the Chamber chorused that Israel was a democracy.

They jumped right up and, while they were suspended in the air, drove their bayonets into an imaginary enemy's throat, chorusing 'Kill! kill! kill!'

"Yes," said the King; "Come lend us your assistance. Characters, my fine fellow; we stand in need of characters—all of us—ha! ha! ha!" and as this was seriously meant for a joke, his laugh was chorused by the seven.

Malcolm sung an Erse song, the chorus of which was 'Hatyin foam foam eri', with words of his own. (..) the boatmen and Mr M’Queen chorused, and all went well.

Six State Commissioners of Education gloomily chorused about retrenchments, pay cuts and shut-down schools in Alabama, Missouri, Tennessee, Washington, Massachusetts and Maine.

Without an abatement agreement there would have been no chorusing from the government about the great success and triumph that Fontainebleau represented for Britain.

Others in the crowded bus, having nothing better to do, took up the cry, and soon many of the higglers were chorusing about the ugliness of the fisherman playing dominoes.

Then she shouted: "Viva our Lady of Grace," and the crowd chorused.

Then the cocks began to crow in the town beneath the hill, and the birds chorused in the fields, and a pale yellow poppy colored the east.

The hens are now sleeping in rows on their perches in the coops, and the frogs are out of the water and chorusing away along the bed of the whole torrent, from source to mouth.