Duet

/djuˈɛt/

"Duet" in a Sentence (20 examples)

Tom sang a duet with Mary.

The sisters played a duet on the violin and piano.

Tom persuaded Mary to sing a duet with him.

Would you like to sing a duet with me?

Tom and Mary sang a duet together.

Tom and I sang a duet together.

Tom and I sang a duet.

Tom and Mary sang a duet.

Mary persuaded Tom to sing a duet with her.

Tom and Mary sang a duet and John accompanied them on the piano.

The fare is Caribbean with an Asian touch — millefeuille of sun-dried tomato, Paris mushrooms and chargrilled local asparagus followed by a duet of chicken and shrimp...

1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277, https://books.google.ca/books?id=-DF4Zs_eezUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.

He was about as accordantly coupled with Dr. Middleton in discourse as a drum duetting with a bass-viol […]

‘Ti-yi-yi-yime is on my side, yes it is,’ I used to yodel, duetting with Mick Jagger as I gyrated alone in my student room.

1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223, Duetting species are typically monogamous.

In several dozen species of birds there has been found a phenomenon known as duetting, or antiphonal singing: the first part of a song is executed by one partner of a pair, then the other partner very promptly chimes in to sing the second part.

Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]

After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.

“My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.

1884, Anonymous, A Speculation, Denver: D. M. Richards, Chapter 12, p. 50, https://books.google.ca/books?id=RsFQAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false “A bear!” exclaimed the Major, jumping up and coming forward. “A bear!” dueted the Doctor and Right Rev., pressing hastily to the front.

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