How to Use a cappella in a Sentence

a cappella

adverb or adjective
Definition of a cappellanext
  • The chorus sings in four-part a cappella harmony: lead, tenor, baritone and bass.
    — Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Until now, there has been a clear trajectory for Yale a cappella singers.
    — David Shimer, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The Lions can put on a show on the court and a cappella, although according to Carr, making music is the easy part.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Tucker pursues Cassandra with the ominous single-mindedness of someone who used to be in an a cappella group.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The group, all priests, will sing liturgical chants a cappella in English, Greek and Romanian.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • If There Were Water (Innova), featuring a pair of dazzling a cappella works.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The boy yodeling at Walmart, too, has inspired many to create their own musical mashups, capitalizing on his pure a cappella vocals.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
  • There was a lot of a cappella singing and singing in rounds.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 Nov. 2021
  • In the original 2004 movie, the music cuts out, and Cady saves the day by singing the song a cappella.
    — Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The highlight, without a doubt, is the a cappella section late in the song.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 20 June 2022
  • Last year at the Shang-Chi junket, Simu Liu sang a cappella for me.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
  • This a cappella group has mastered the art of singing iPhone ringtones and alert chimes!
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 10 Nov. 2022
  • To have both Jon and the greatest a cappella group in the world, Pentatonix, on my song is a dream come true.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 22 July 2022
  • Michael Bublé’s mini me is part of an a cappella group called Acapop.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 5 Oct. 2019
  • But leave it to a cappella group Pentatonix to give it a fresh spin.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The pair joined up again six years later to sing the same 1974 hit on The Voice, along with a cappella group Pentatonix.
    — Kelly O'Sullivan, Country Living, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Faye joins an a cappella group, and Todd protects Chloe from lice.
    — Nina Zafar, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Performance for a cappella singing is in the eyes and ears of the audience.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The event will feature a variety of a cappella groups from 1 to 6 p.m.
    — Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Claude McKnight of the a cappella group Take 6, which toured with the Transfer in recent years, had his own speech ready.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The a cappella quartet will first be seen Sept. 20, Disney says.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2020
  • The event will feature a cappella high school singers and a special guest, Mayor Erik Brooks said.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Bumper was the main antagonist of the first film and the leader of the all-male a cappella group The Treblemakers.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 Sep. 2021
  • As far as Granata is aware, Sinatra never laid the two a cappella songs to tape.
    — Randall Roberts, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Over the years, Pentatonix has quickly become one of the most iconic a cappella groups in the world.
    — Gianluca Russo, Teen Vogue, 27 Apr. 2019
  • Backed by four of her background singers, H.E.R. belts out the 2005 hit completely a cappella.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 14 July 2022
  • The event will include swag, games, face painting, crafts, food trucks, speakers and a cappella group MaskEra.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023
  • The humor may remind you of college a cappella groups, clever and twee and earnest and pleasant enough in small doses.
    — Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Struggling to find her place, Beca joins Bellas, an all-girls a cappella group at her school with a rocky past.
    — Nitya Rao, Seventeen, 20 July 2022
  • The pair sang the classic song — originally written and sung by Betts — a cappella.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024

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