How to Use band in a Sentence

band

1 of 2 noun
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  • And, in perhaps a shock to even the band itself, Platt bowed out in 2022.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Despite the heat and daylight, the band found its second wind in the back half of the set.
    — Caryn Rose, Variety, 3 May 2024
  • And from the sax player to the drummer, that band was a knockout.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
  • My first show was at an Irish bar, opening for a surf band.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • McVie imbued the rock band's sound with a feathery touch.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • The Doors and the Allman Brothers are like my two favorite bands.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Justin Timberlake, the band's front-runner, has voiced Branch in the films.
    — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The video ends with a jazz band marching down the streets as the couple watches from a balcony.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Last year was full of highlights and milestones for the arts-and-crafty Nashville punk band Sn​õ​õ​per.
    — Ben Salmon, SPIN, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Every one of us knows someone like the band members in this movie.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • At your hips, the IT band connects to the gluteus maximus and gluteus medius.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • For the performance, Feist was joined by a full backing band.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The music Myers and his band played was Harris' fuel on the court.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The band that had been performing, moe., said in a statement that they were shocked and saddened.
    — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The two will perform classic hits from both bands backed up by a seven-piece live band.
    — The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2024
  • There will be both bagpipers and a mariachi band at the opening on Friday.
    — Jonathan Shikes, The Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Tom Fletcher, a founding member of the band McFly, is writing the music and lyrics.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Grab the mini band with your left hand, palm facing up, and curl the band up towards your shoulder.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health, 19 Apr. 2024
  • After activating, slip the band on your arm and go to sleep.
    — Latifah Miles, Parents, 8 Apr. 2024
  • In 1981, a couple of local guys started a band and Keith joined up.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The dramatic green-and-black energy drink fit the vibe of a rock band, but the water fulfilled a need.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Stylists rolled racks of tweed pants and natty cardigans into the studio—ivory-tower drag for the band.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • All seven members of the globe-trotting band have entered the Billboard charts on their own.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The Mary Janes The movie opens on Gwen drumming with her band and recounting her origin story.
    — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
  • This is a band that has performed at big venues, that roams sonic landscapes and seldom stays still.
    — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks, named in tribute to the band’s rehearsal space, arrived in the following months.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The band’s farewell tour coincides with the 10th anniversary of the album’s release.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Modeliste is the drummer for legendary New Orleans funk band The Meters.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 9 June 2023
  • The lineup will feature pop-punk and emo bands that broke out in the late '90s and early aughts (the same timeframe that's inspired the Tacos & Tequila bookings).
    — Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But for a band more about music than personality, the quartet, which sounded crisp, could sometimes blend in with the oval stage and awe-inducing graphics.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
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band

2 of 2 verb
  • He was dressed in faded black, from ball cap to jeans and band T-shirt.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Start standing with feet hip-width apart and band around ankles.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Below are 12 Huntsville bands those insiders named as some of the city’s top live acts.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Three of his children were with his first wife, Emily Strayer, a founding member of the country band the Chicks.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
  • A lot of artists made solo side projects and did band things and that’s always been my imagination of what the future would have been.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Scientists band the falcons to track their flight pattern.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2023
  • The Guardians also band back together in volume three of their beloved franchise.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2022
  • In addition to piloting the boat and hauling traps, Oliver measures the lobsters and bands their claws.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
  • What are the different ways the Titans can band together to defeat this villain?
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Outside of the government, civilians have banded to try and answer the questions about the unknown themselves.
    — Kelsey Klimara, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Capture birds in mist nets, record information, band the birds, and release them so that they can be monitored.
    — Eva Lewandowski, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2016
  • The goal of the work is to band the birds, allowing them to be tracked and identified later in life, as well as record productivity and number of nest sites.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
  • The story follows a smart but lonely transfer student — who finds that her memory can only last one week — and the high school kids who band around her.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2022
  • Dave Epstein Read full article There will be banding of the snow on Tuesday from late morning through the afternoon.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • When evil forces threaten their magical land of Coventry, the sisters have to band together to banish them.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Create a culture of teamwork, not competition. Make it the norm in your team to band together and help each other.
    — Pascal Bachmann, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Customers can choose the diamond shape and then fully customize their piece of jewelry, from setting to band and more.
    — Kristen Bateman, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Faced with declining sway, studios would do better to band together and present a united front, Fenton says.
    — Rebecca Davis, Variety, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Plus, drama has always had a way of banding people together.
    — USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Here’s a quick way to distinguish the two species: the redear’s dark ear flap includes a red border, and the sides have more of a golden, often speckled, coloration with vertical banding much fainter than that of a bluegill.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • One significant method of studying birds, banding, has deep roots and is still popular today.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • Google is delaying planned changes to its in-app payment rules in India by six months, backing down after some of the country’s largest developers and startups threatened to band against the U.S. search giant.
    — Saritha Rai, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The remaining Sparrows and the Umbrella Academy may all have to band together to defeat Reginald.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 27 June 2022
  • Famous among birders, Wisdom was first banded by scientists in 1956.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • This year, researchers were able to band 15 herons at the zoo, Adams said, a first step to being able to track whether birds are returning year after year and to collect specific demographic information.
    — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Legitimate homesteaders had to band together to keep their equipment intact and their buildings from being burned by thugs.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Birders were able to decipher a unique alphanumeric code on a flamingo that had been banded at Río Lagartos, a breeding colony in Mexico, Lorenz said.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • How will band and drill teams be socially distanced? Band and drill teams will be assigned a specific section each game, and are encouraged to socially distance from each other and from event spectators.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Grandjean, an enthusiastic bird-watcher with the extravagant eyebrows of a rockhopper penguin, had fond memories of banding storm petrels in the Faroes in his late teens and was familiar with the grindadráp.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • From sparrows to sandhill cranes, Forest Preserves wildlife biologists safely capture, handle and band an average of 400 birds per year as part of ongoing research, the release said.
    — Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2022

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