How to Use band in a Sentence

band

1 of 2 noun
  • Check out the bands and the fans.
    — Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The band’s tight and down to earth.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Batiste then asked him to join the band.
    — Chris Almeida, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
  • There are no gaps or places where the band is too tight.
    — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Our common thread is to be a band.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2026
  • All bands endure some kind of loss.
    — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
  • There’s gonna be a woman in the band.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That’s the first band that took the Roots on tour.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • What time will each band go on, and how many stages will there be?
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • The band is wrapped up in a heated dice game.
    — Jonathan Terrell, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For many, the local bands are a main draw.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026
  • And then the band came up on the platform.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Protect your watch with this rugged sport band.
    — Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Next are biopics about cover-band artists.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • What does the black band mean on police badges?
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Thick white bands with brown edges crisscross its back.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Then, a five-piece band strikes up in the corner.
    — Phil Thomas, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • This isn’t the band’s first brush with viral fame.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2026
  • People didn’t want to stick their neck out for this band.
    — Mac Engel april 20, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Scripts take time and plays take time, and bands take time and songs take time.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • So, in the end, does that mean Iceage is still a punk band?
    — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 2 June 2026
  • That’s not the case with a live rock & roll band like the Stones.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Wings was a band where the center could hold, but not much else could.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And the Clash was my favorite band as a kid.
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 27 May 2026
  • Marie also has a great band of friends who love her, not fear her.
    — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But on the White House lawn, the band played on.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2026
  • But shout out to the whole band, Lakeside.
    — Gia Peppers, VIBE.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That night, a band called The Castiles hit the stage.
    — Henry Selick, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The band still hadn’t heard the whole song, just some chords and bars, and no lyrics.
    — John U. Bacon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Ratty pale jeans, band T-shirt.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025

band

2 of 2 verb
  • Three were banded last year, and two the year before that.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Start standing with feet hip-width apart and band around ankles.
    — Mallory Creveling, Health, 3 Sep. 2023
  • This version has a slim fit, crewneck, and banded trim at the cuffs and hem.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 11 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The Guardians also band back together in volume three of their beloved franchise.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 13 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • One common option is banding or rubber band ligation.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • What are the different ways the Titans can band together to defeat this villain?
    — Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Women in hip hop is tough, so banding the Baddies cast together strengthens their resolve.
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • One significant method of studying birds, banding, has deep roots and is still popular today.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • The oversized sweatshirt has a crew neckline, side vents, and banded trim, while the wide-leg pants have a drawstring waist and angled side pockets.
    — Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 5 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • One thing that bands from the Northeast shared with bands from the Northwest was an appreciation for a good sweater.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The only armadillo native to the United States is the nine-banded.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
  • When evil forces threaten their magical land of Coventry, the sisters have to band together to banish them.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Outside of the government, civilians have banded to try and answer the questions about the unknown themselves.
    — Kelsey Klimara, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • In addition to piloting the boat and hauling traps, Oliver measures the lobsters and bands their claws.
    — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 21 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The long-sleeve dress was cut from white fabric banded with horizontal sheer stripes and overlaid with silver bead and sequin appliqués in abstract patterns.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • They have been named and banded, and their names were announced Monday — Buddy, Frankie, Mavis, and Tweedy.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • Staffers are banding and taking samples from common raptor species throughout the county, according to a district social media post.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Famous among birders, Wisdom was first banded by scientists in 1956.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Similarly to Dillon, the town of Vail boasts a state-of-the-art amphitheater that bands forgo radius clauses to perform at.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
  • So absent a twist where Platner gets replaced on the ballot — and there are no indications that one is coming — Democrats seem likely to band around him and roll the dice.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 1 June 2026
  • For the past two years, biologists with the Pennsylvania Game Commission have banded chicks born in the nest.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026

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