How to Use bandstand in a Sentence

bandstand

noun
  • Two young men from the same rooms, the same bandstands, the same late nights.
    — John Hope Bryant, Time, 23 June 2026
  • Crowder, the last to leave the bandstand, went to fetch his hat.
    — Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The use of high school students hearkens back to when the bandstand was built.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The cement dance floor in front of the bandstand was also jam-packed with dancers.
    — La Cañada Valley Sun, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Bring your dancing shoes to take a few spins on the cement dance floor right in front of the bandstand.
    — Jane Napier Neely, La Cañada Valley Sun, 15 July 2019
  • And there's even a tradition of calling tunes from the bandstand.
    — Annie Alleman, Aurora Beacon-News, 12 Dec. 2017
  • There was a bandstand on one side of Main Street and a booze tent on the other.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 July 2021
  • Art galleries, restaurants and shops sit near the square, which centers on a bandstand.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • Fallon’s desk was one side of the stage and The Roots’ bandstand on the other.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The park is now equipped with a bandstand bearing Ridley’s name.
    — Ben Brazil, Daily Pilot, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The one bright spot is the bandstand, its backdrop a red circle edged in flames spiked with giant matchsticks.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2017
  • The village green was clear-cut and bulldozed, the wooden bandstand taken down, the dirt roads paved and widened.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • The grand ballroom was up on the 18th floor, with a vaulted ceiling, bandstand and dance floor.
    — Dallas News, 24 May 2022
  • The bandstand is one of the few remaining of its kind in Indiana.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
  • His motions around the instrument and the bandstand were a part of his performance too.
    — Ben Ratliff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • From the main stage to the bandstand, musicians sang and played everything from country to rock.
    — By Anne Marie Hunter, kansascity.com, 9 June 2017
  • The balconies and base of the bandstand were covered in the national colors.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • DeSanto, waiting to sit in with the younger bad-ass white boys who kept the little bandstand lit.
    — Bart Bull, SPIN, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Already, the bandstand stairs have been closed to the public, and workers took measurements of the site late last week.
    — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
  • The bandstand has been the focal point of Clarkdale since at least 1917.
    — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
  • Across the street, the bandstand stood snow-covered and, with Christmas now over, unlighted.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • As 1,200 people watched, Debs stepped to the front of a wooden bandstand.
    — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 15 June 2018
  • Across the lawn, green as a golf course, an Elvis impersonator croons from a bandstand that used to be a flatbed trailer.
    — Meadow Rue Merrill, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Patsy was one of the last remaining people on the bandstand and was restrained face down on the floor with her hands behind her back.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Professionals were hired to do the roofing and electrical work on the bandstand.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • During her two decades in New York, Davis’s presence on the bandstand was a kind of bellwether.
    — Jon Garelick, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • As for the quintet, Carroll is committed to convening the group on bandstands at least once a month.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • About 20 people gathered in front of the park bandstand as the sun set during a windy and unseasonably chilly evening.
    — David Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Since the 1930s, the Nativity scene has been placed near the town’s bandstand.
    — Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 28 June 2020
  • The racetrack understands this dynamic, the swell of emotion at the end of the day, and there is a singalong at the bandstand.
    — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 24 June 2019

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