How to Use ditty in a Sentence

ditty

noun
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  • Play us a little ditty.
  • However, there are some quirky ditties that even multigenerational Southerners might not have ever heard, or that people commonly use in the wrong way.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 July 2024
  • If Cupid can’t do the trick, play this ditty from The Ronettes to shoot your shot.
    — Elizabeth Berry, Good Housekeeping, 26 Jan. 2023
  • And these ditties never fail to bring a smile to our face.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 10 May 2023
  • That all changed one night in 2019, all because of a ditty from a Disney movie.
    — Dawn Ennis, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • This feel-good, synth-bumping ditty will have you up on your feet in no time.
    — Paris Close, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2017
  • This was the height of grunge, and then along comes Weezer with this nerdy little pop-punk ditty.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • His little ditty brings Katie to tears, which shocks him.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 6 July 2021
  • Swift co-wrote the ditty with Del Rey and Antonoff (who also co-wrote 10 other songs on the album).
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Remember that classic campfire ditty, The worms crawl in the worms crawl out/the worms play pinochle on your snout?
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The ones who are in the street attacking Israel and chanting mindless ditties about the virtues of Hamas.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
  • There was the time Irvine gave Julie Andrews a tour of the zoo, and Andrews sang her a little ditty about the joys of wallowing in the mud.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2020
  • In the Strand, in Georgian London, the big-haired prostitutes grind their hips and sing ditties about their trade.
    — The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • The Standells may have made more than a few bucks from a little ditty about the Charles River’s pollution.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The childish playground ditty is at least partly true: Mere words cannot break an arm or bust a nose.
    — Josh Craddock, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Vile spends his time alone noodling blues riffs; Barnett comes up with ditties off news headlines.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2017
  • And among it, all was a near-constant request — for the couple to make the ditty into a genuine, streamable song.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Southwest meets the celestial — and the stage — in Wes Anderson’s latest ditty.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
  • The Southwest meets the celestial — and the stage — in Wes Anderson’s latest ditty.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There’s a little ditty that Texas Christian football fans have been yelling for the better part of the last century.
    — Laine Higgins, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2023
  • While the actress always has a good story up her sleeve (bowel movements and all), this little ditty takes the cake.
    — Hallie Gould, Marie Claire, 19 Dec. 2013
  • The best way to experience the forgettable ditty is to dive in headfirst.
    — Christie D’zurillastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • About the last thing to be expected from a songwriter as moody and intense as Lorde was a carefree ditty about fun in the summer sun.
    — John Mayer, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
  • As the ditty goes: One died, one survived, two de-wedded, two beheaded.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • Everyone has heard of Lizzie Borden, who, according to the ditty, took an ax and smote her parents with four-score-and-one whacks.
    — Howard Schneider, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • For Foster, the ultra-polished ditty was in a sense business as usual.
    — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • What's a Timberlake show without a little ditty from his boy band days?
    — Eder Campuzano, OregonLive.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Like the 1970s classics, Mr Khan’s ditty is all blue jeans, work boots and American-dream fulfilment.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • Time and cultural changes wrecked the once-glorious wittiness of the dirty ditty.
    — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
  • These clever, funny scenes become set-ups for some divine Sondheim ditties, which in turn loosen and switch the overall mood and allow for some playful banter about bachelor(ette)hood that leads you smoothly to the next scene.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2024

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