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melodic phrase

n. a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line]

Usage examples of "melodic phrase".

Tremulously a rappoor threaded through a melodic phrase and stilled itself.

The assistant had gone off to lunch while Gilbert was making the final adjustments, and when he came back an hour later the laboratory was pulsing with one long and very complex melodic phrase.