How to Use belting in a Sentence

belting

noun
  • The belting was clear, but some of the quieter moments were muffled.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 June 2024
  • There’s soprano, there’s a lot of mixing, there’s big, broad belting.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The 22-year-old’s warm tone and emotive belting earned her a swift four-chair turn from the coaches.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This time around, the pics featured leather and a lot of belting, inspired by the 90s theme of her newest collection.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 30 Oct. 2020
  • As the youngest member flexed his monstrous belting range without faltering, excited gasps and yells would burst from the crowd.
    — Natalie Morin, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Her signature pop-rock style and belting vocals have turned her into a household name for popular music.
    — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The Ozzman himself sounds great, with the same rich, belting tone that helped make No More Tears a triumph.
    — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Depending on height, shoppers vary between using it as a blouse or dress, with some belting or layering it, as preferred.
    — Grace Smith, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • The overhead lights dimmed, the runway lights gleamed, and the sound system blasted Barbra Streisand belting show tunes.
    — Karen Chee, ELLE, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The team tied the game with a belting volley by Ivan Perisic 10 minutes after going 1-0 down.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 July 2018
  • The hardcore synth production is powered by melancholy belting from Jimin, Jin and Jungkook, as the band pleads with a lover to stay.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 June 2018
  • In fact, tropes and archetypes are the engines of this film, thinly sketched characters whose development seems to have been jettisoned for endless belting.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
  • On the stroke of half-time, Mané silenced his former supporters and blasted Liverpool into the lead with a belting strike.
    — SI.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Like its predecessor, Guts is filled with bratty pop-punk bangers, hooky alt-rock homages, and introspective piano ballads with room for belting.
    — Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The soft sweetness throughout was thoroughly enjoyable, and that unexpected belting at the end left us curious to hear what else this man can offer.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The Academy Award-winning actress's performance had her belting brassy show tunes with twitchy élan one minute and fending off heartbreak with booze and pills the next.
    — Hugh Hart, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2019
  • As the aged mom, Megan Mulally does her whole performance with a kind of an elderly lisp thing, albeit with moments of belting breaking through that.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Choose from dark or medium brown belting leather, or get extra wild with crocodile print, ostrich print or genuine Western diamondback rattlesnake inlay.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The staging itself was impressive, but Rodrigo’s vocal performance was enough of a draw on its own — from the tender opening notes to some massive belting toward the end.
    — Ryan Reed, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Cuomo and Clarkson split the lead vocals, with the American Idol adding some of her signature powerhouse belting into the mix.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 22 May 2024
  • Willow took the the SNL stage like a damn pro — glaring, belting, screaming in her platform Converse and feline black eyeliner.
    — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Tammy Faye, with her helium speaking voice and peppy gospel-tune belting—not to mention her clown-on-the-town makeup, which became more garish and extreme as the duo became richer—was lively and sugary and fun to mock.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Sep. 2021
  • As a result, there’s a void in the center of this show that gets filled instead by the more sympathetic secondary characters whose songs virtually all conclude with big belting finishes that drew the biggest audience responses on opening night.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • These are just five Christmas songs made for belting, jamming and headbanging during the holiday season, so my colleagues and I created a Spotify playlist with even more Christmas bangers.
    — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The cast — made up of varied body types and ethnicities, suggesting a nod toward diversity and representation — had the opportunity to showcase their vocal agility right from the start, foreshadowing the belting that was to come.
    — Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
  • Leading lady Eden Espinosa gives it her all, gamely delivering all of Gould’s unnecessary belting and Kreitzer’s leaden dialogue.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024
  • This is their first collaboration since the debut of their 2007 duet album Raising Sand, in which Plant took a slightly more mellow vocal approach in comparison to his infamous raw and powerful belting.
    — oregonlive, 20 May 2022
  • Oversized belts cinched over trenches, trousers, and skirts made a strong showing on the Max Mara Fall/Winter 2025/2026 runway in Milan–a clear signal that bold belting is back and ready to elevate everyday styling.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 27 Jan. 2026

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