noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
choir practice
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There's choir practice on Tuesday evening.
male-voice choir
massed choir/band British English (= several choirs or bands singing or playing together as one large group )
the church choir (= a group of people who lead the singing in a church )
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Steve’s a member of the local church choir.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
male
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He was also interested in phrenology and conducted a male voice choir .
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In his spare time he sang in a male voice choir .
■ NOUN
aisle
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He turned to the right and made for the north choir aisle .
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Now the choir and the south choir aisle were empty except for the Chapter clergy and the cathedral policeman.
cathedral
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The best of our cathedral choirs offer excellence of the highest order.
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At 9, he became a busy boy soprano, beginning a six-year scholarship to a cathedral choir .
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The introduction of girls into cathedral choirs and the continuing vitality of choir schools are also hopeful signs for the future.
church
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Boys and Girls A complicating factor in recruitment for church choirs may be the boy/girl issue.
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I taught a Sunday school class and sang in the church choir , whose members included soldiers stationed at nearby bases.
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He won a scholarship to Halifax Secondary School, sang in the church choir , and became a Scout.
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You may even have sung in a church choir , helping voices rise in spiritual exultation before trading in your satiny robe.
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He has sung in church choirs and is a tenor with Darlington Choral Society.
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The times she enjoyed the most were when she was singing and practicing with the church choir .
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Remuneration offered to children in parish church choirs is usually at the level of pocket money.
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He's heard, he says, that Speedo Man is a church choir director!
gospel
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The entertainment included Stevie Nicks, Al Green, a huge gospel choir and 1,000 dancers.
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In the sequel, Whoopi will play a nun who helps a gospel choir in a city slum.
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Anyone who understands gospel choirs and Jam &038; Lewis will know what to expect.
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From this tradition have emerged a number of notable black Gospel choirs , some of them performing to a very high standard.
practice
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He would walk her home from choir practice and Evensong.
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She says they look forward to choir practice .
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Friday the choir practice and on Saturday a prayer meeting for the services on Sunday.
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Make sure you're better for choir practice ... Miss Gregg.
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Back to choir practice we said.
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For he will not miss his evening class or his choir practice for a woman.
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But on the whole, Soho was quiet enough for choir practice these days.
school
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From the school came more music, the school choir rehearsing for Christmas.
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By 14 I was singing in the school choir .
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Artists will range from school choirs to household names.
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When I was eight years old I joined our school choir .
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In the second half the school choir performed Vivaldi's Gloria.
voice
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He was also interested in phrenology and conducted a male voice choir .
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In his spare time he sang in a male voice choir .
■ VERB
join
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I had to make decisions as to whether I should join the choir or arrange to play quartets.
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And our outlook on life from now until we join the feathered choir pivots on the answer.
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The Chamber Choir and the Renaissance Singers provide for those interested in joining smaller choirs .
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When I was eight years old I joined our school choir .
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He had joined the choir school of Notre-Dame and had sung in the chorus of the Opera-Comique.
preach
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Not only was he preaching to the choir , he was talking to tax-cutting evangelists.
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He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.
sing
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He sang in the choir , was a talented musician and a keen sportsman.
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I taught a Sunday school class and sang in the church choir , whose members included soldiers stationed at nearby bases.
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He won a scholarship to Halifax Secondary School, sang in the church choir , and became a Scout.
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By 14 I was singing in the school choir .
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He has sung in church choirs and is a tenor with Darlington Choral Society.
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You may even have sung in a church choir , helping voices rise in spiritual exultation before trading in your satiny robe.
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Now she sings instead with local choirs .
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I sing in the choir at the funeral service for the family.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
preach to the converted/choir
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As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this, so he avoided prosecution.
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But they will still usually be only the party faithful, so he will find himself preaching to the converted.
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He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.
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Not only was he preaching to the choir, he was talking to tax-cutting evangelists.
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To some extent this means preaching to the converted.
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You're preaching to the converted in us, but you've got to get at everyone else.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's a member of a Welsh Male Voice Choir .
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I have always sung in choirs.
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Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin started singing in gospel choirs, not at music lessons.
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The school choir performed Vivaldi's Gloria.
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the St. Joseph's Cathedral Choir
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A choir of families, wrapped in woolly hats, overcoats and scarves, were singing carols by a crib.
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All this music is preserved in the Eton Choirbook, compiled in c.1500-4 for use by the choir of Eton College chapel.
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I had to make decisions as to whether I should join the choir or arrange to play quartets.
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I sing in the choir at the funeral service for the family.
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Mark Price not only looks like a choir boy, he is one.
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The hymn was followed by a passage from the New Testament, another hymn from the choir and some simple prayers.
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The nave and choir can have no triforium or clerestory so must be lit by exceptionally large aisle windows.
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The times she enjoyed the most were when she was singing and practicing with the church choir .