Muzak is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Muzak in a sentence
Muzak meaning
Recorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises.
Using Muzak
- The main meaning on this page is: Recorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises.
- In the example corpus, muzak often appears in combinations such as: of muzak, with muzak.
Context around Muzak
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Muzak
- In this selection, "muzak" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, generate, generic, story, company, typically and killer stand out and add context to how "muzak" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1987 with muzak style versions and america s muzak her songs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "muzak" sits close to words such as aadi, aakash and aayush, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with muzak
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Computer algorithms, de Sautoy concludes for example, can generate muzak, but not “quality music”. (14 words)
Generic muzak is banned, a serene soundtrack provided instead by tangos and folk tunes. (14 words)
At that time, functional music was almost exclusively identified with Muzak — it had a very bad rap. (17 words)
A sliver of hope tantalises after years of what has amounted to a new dark age where a kind of Muzak of madness has dominated what could charitably be described as the “public discourse” in the dis-United States. (39 words)
Last century, the Muzak company created custom mixes of soft music for locations ranging from doctor’s office waiting rooms and restaurants to barber shops and, yes, elevators. (28 words)
They also recorded music, later released on the album E-Z Listening Disc (1987), with Muzak -style versions of their own songs to play before their concerts. (27 words)
Richey himself was later parodied as "Clarence" of the "Crazy Sked Moaners" in the Dredd story Muzak Killer: Live! (19 words)
Example sentences (12)
A sliver of hope tantalises after years of what has amounted to a new dark age where a kind of Muzak of madness has dominated what could charitably be described as the “public discourse” in the dis-United States.
But unplugging the National League and American League homer leaders through the weekend has left the Mets and Yankees lineups as electric as Muzak.
Swift has become America’s Muzak, her songs the soundtrack to our Starbucks lines and her life the fodder for our tabloid stories.
The reference to muzak, by the way, isn’t meant to suggest that composer Ingrid Michaelson looks back quite that far for her musical inspirations.
At that time, functional music was almost exclusively identified with Muzak — it had a very bad rap.
Last century, the Muzak company created custom mixes of soft music for locations ranging from doctor’s office waiting rooms and restaurants to barber shops and, yes, elevators.
Computer algorithms, de Sautoy concludes for example, can generate muzak, but not “quality music”.
Generic muzak is banned, a serene soundtrack provided instead by tangos and folk tunes.
Not the sort you usually associate with hotels, ships and restaurants, often the artistic equivalent of ‘muzak’, typically Jack Vettriano prints and French café posters.
Muzak was a major supplier of business background music, and was the best known such supplier for years.
Richey himself was later parodied as "Clarence" of the "Crazy Sked Moaners" in the Dredd story Muzak Killer: Live!
They also recorded music, later released on the album E-Z Listening Disc (1987), with Muzak -style versions of their own songs to play before their concerts.
Common combinations with muzak
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of muzak 2×
- with muzak 2×