Examples of ditty in a Sentence
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Or a ditty from Demi Lovato about dinner last night?
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
Swift knows how to pick a collaborator whose emotionality doesn’t overpower hers and the duo create a song that’s not about revenge, but is rather a stinging ditty dedicated to not compromising oneself for a partner.–M.M.
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—TIME, 25 Oct. 2023
Bloom marches onto the stage at the Lortel clad in a sequined pantsuit and shiny silver pumps and proceeds to deliver some lighthearted material—a ditty about a tree that smells like semen, for example.
—Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2023
What seems like a simple ditty about getting blotto and mending a broken heart turns out to be a profound meditation on the often painful inertia of beach dwelling.
—Mike Postalakis, Spin, 5 Sep. 2023
Being forced to write hideous ditties for a television character named Mr. Bungee (Andy Grotelueschen) is enough to stoke his neuroses.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
The Southwest meets the celestial — and the stage — in Wes Anderson’s latest ditty.
—Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
Also posting the same clip to his personal Instagram page that does not have comments disabled, many fans were less interested in the fashion choices and wanted to hear more than a snippet of the fresh ditty that Jonas was hinting at.
—Nikki Dobrin, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
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Word History
Middle English ditee, from Anglo-French dité story, song, from past participle of diter to compose, from Latin dictare to dictate, compose
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Ditty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ditty. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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