How to Use balladeer in a Sentence

balladeer

noun
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  • Hobo Jim died last fall, and was known as Alaska’s balladeer.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Some things have changed for the Latin artist, who was better known before as a balladeer.
    — Sigal Ratner-Arias, The Seattle Times, 18 Aug. 2017
  • For those who prefer her as a balladeer, the bottom half of the album will prove pleasing.
    — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Who has been such a dedicated balladeer of the TGIF class?
    — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
  • As the eight songs reveal, the older balladeers have a wealth of life experience to share.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • This was the hip-hop soul era, when balladeers wore hoodies and chunky boots and relocated their tales of seduction from the boudoir to the street.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2020
  • Jones was a gifted country balladeer with a stirring voice.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Sheeran the balladeer, the sensitive dude who blurts out his feelings after a pint or two, is never far away.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Last night there was, on one hand, the mother expecting twins, the gentle balladeer, the gracious loser of Grammy awards, the woman brought to tears by praise of Adele.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Mushy love and sappy romance are synonymous with soft-rock balladeer Michael Bolton.
    — Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2017
  • But this will be the first time that gritty, golden-era hip-hop will take the spot typically reserved for balladeers and classic rock bands.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2024
  • There, balladeers could sing protest songs, women could smoke hookah next to men, and cubicles provided space where the devout could retire to pray.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
  • By 2020, the Rose were one of the handful of Korean pop-rock bands that had any modicum of success in a scene dominated by idol pop acts, balladeers, rappers, and R&B artists.
    — Tamar Herman, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Even best-selling balladeer Adele wasn’t immune to label pressure.
    — Vulture, 23 May 2022
  • In 2013, her favorite artist at the time, the Atlanta rapper and heart-on-his-sleeve balladeer Future, played an in-progress version of his sophomore album Honest for the magazine’s staff.
    — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 12 May 2023
  • The folk-country balladeer started his music career playing small clubs in Chicago while holding a day job as a mailman.
    — oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Cocker then withdrew for several years, re-emerging as a hit balladeer.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 27 June 2023
  • The Puerto Rican balladeer and pop star — whose career spans more than four decades — has built a legacy as one of the most beloved and respected artists in the entertainment industry.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Now casts Clementine as a balladeer, a confessionalist filled with ornate tales of rough living.
    — Zane Warman, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Miles took pains to counter the notion of McCartney as a soapy balladeer and, by inference, of Lennon as the group’s sole intellectual and artistic radical.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • With the arrival of rock ′n’ roll, music underwent a revolution and many balladeers faded.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Isaac plays the eponymous balladeer-singer, a man constitutionally incapable of catching a break in 1960s New York.
    — Hazlitt, 24 Aug. 2022
  • No less than his fellow power-balladeer Elton John presented him with the distinction.
    — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Entertainment Thanks to a soaring, boyish tenor that seems tailor-made for romantic epics, Ricardo Montaner became one of the top balladeers on the Latin-pop scene in the late '80s and '90s.
    — Randy Cordova, azcentral, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Tyler was a Rookie of the Year finalist, but that distinction ultimately went to Destroy Lonely, a vaguely emo balladeer with ropey blond dreads.
    — M.t. Richards, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But the wounds sustained and inflicted by cheating hearts, so often hymned by Nashville balladeers, are a specialty of Mr. Lonergan.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2016
  • The progression positioned the vocalist as a balladeer and belter, someone caught up in the joys love can bring and eager to share it with everyone via the form of explosive choruses.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • Cole is probably best remembered now as a smooth mid-century balladeer whose name graced multiple hit records.
    — Bret Saunders, The Know, 2 Nov. 2019
  • As wiry post-punks, atmospheric goth balladeers, and purveyors of dizzying pop gems, the Cure have worn many faces over their four-plus decades, and each was on display during an ensuing 29-song set that stretched to nearly three hours.
    — Ben Stas, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
  • Those underground notes Kondo created are in another scene played by Jack Black’s Bowser at the piano, now a lonely, lovelorn heavy metal balladeer.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023

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