sing

"I really want to sing in the school choir," said Vera.

sing a lullaby

to sing somebody to sleep

The evening was still very warm, and the birds in the woods were singing in praise of spring.

The air sings in passing through a crevice.

Again I bid the mournful Goddeſs write / The fond Purſuit of fugitive Delight: / Bid her exalt her melancholy Wing, / And rais'd from Earth, and ſav'd from Paſſion, ſing / Of human Hope by croſs Event deſtroyed, / Of uſeleſs Wealth, and Greatneſs unenjoy'd, […]

The sauce really makes this lamb sing.

No song sings well unless it is open-vowelled, and has the rhythmic stress on the vowels. Tennyson's songs, for instance, are not generally adapted to music.

‘We sung them two real good. We never give Louis Beck no place to find rest from his torment.’