How to Use B-side in a Sentence

B-side

noun
  • All were shared with B-sides, as was usual at the time.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Here’s a quick catch-up on what to expect, plus B-sides from culture and history.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But Castrato Phantoms is a kind of B-side.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Boy and direct-to-fan platforms like Vault and B-side ticketing.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Presley didn’t even have an album yet, just a single and a B-side recorded less than two weeks before the show.
    — Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Here’s some light Thursday pregame prep, with head-to-head history and B-sides to set Week 7 off right.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Fans can expect this and more on her next release, and all pride aside— a B-sides version of her major label debut, with all due respect.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 3 June 2026
  • On their first full-length album, Blue Valentine, the group is taking a cue from some of their more popular B-sides.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Duda notes that Clarkson and McLachlan will perform a range of singles and B-sides on their episode.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Or perhaps this is the perfect opportunity to become obdurate, go weird and dive into the B-sides and deep cuts.
    — Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The B-side is a conversation Lomax and Dylan had after the recording.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Alluring remixes of recent tunes rub elbows with sought-after B-sides and song fragments that are trickier to place chronologically.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The Loneliest Time, Jepsen’s sixth album, was released in 2022, with the B-sides collection The Loveliest Time arriving the following year.
    — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026
  • Most bands’ B-sides were random live tracks, extraneous remixes, or goofing off in the studio — and Oasis did engage in a bit of that — but Oasis also famously burned off a number of instant classics as B-sides as if to prove this band was definitely no flash in the pan.
    — Jesse Adams, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Originally intended as the B-side to a single from Harrison’s Cloud Nine album, the song instead became the inspiration for the tongue-in-cheek supergroup The Traveling Wilburys.
    — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 17 Sep. 2025
  • After putting out Hug of Thunder, one of the best rock albums of that year, Broken Social Scene rolled out their 2019 Let’s Try the After EPs in two volumes, as well as a collection of B-sides and rarities called Old Dead Young in 2022.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Feb. 2026

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