How to Use busker in a Sentence

busker

noun
  • In this corner of Philly, Puryear is much more than a busker.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • The sound of a busker playing a trumpet can carry for blocks.
    — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Other buskers have since challenged Puryear for the same spot.
    — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • The sidewalks are dotted with buskers, and the crowds spill into the streets.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
  • But others say street artists with their spray cans breathe life into a place the way a busker does with a guitar.
    — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
  • And you’ll be entertained all the while by buskers and street performers.
    — Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Al convinces them to give up thievery and become buskers, sort of a fez-wearing boy band.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
  • Mike Yung is here, New York City subway busker.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Bryan, then, jumped out of the car and started dancing in the street with the Cleveland busker.
    — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 20 July 2017
  • These buskers range in musical style from rock and blues to folk and R&B and even jazz and big band.
    — AL.com, 26 May 2017
  • Music fills the bars, but also the streets, where buskers entertain tourists and lunch-hour diners.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • And, danced to buskers — Jeremy busted out an impressive worm.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Hollywood Boulevard will be reopened to tourists and buskers.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Look for mimes, buskers and street performers throughout the festival.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
  • Angelique said Shader, who goes by Sam, plays the ukulele and spent years on the road working as a busker.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 4 June 2020
  • For Lowery, the folk singer also represents buskers on the subway.
    — Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • There are no cops patrolling on foot, no buskers with guitars and collection tins, no homeless men seeking spare change for bus fare.
    — Staff, Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2020
  • In one, an elderly man hears buskers on the metro playing an old military march and recalls a wartime love affair.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Guests will enter the gala at Bowery Street, where a busker and paparazzi will greet them in the parking lot.
    — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • In what might be the world’s first, London has introduced a way for passers-by to tip buskers with cashless payments.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 29 May 2018
  • Boutiques, restaurants, and buskers give the marketplace a vital (and hectic) feel.
    — Claire Dederer, ELLE Decor, 27 May 2011
  • Meanwhile, buskers entertain people in line playing drums with buckets.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Although digital payments have helped buskers make up for a decline in cash tips, performers are still struggling.
    — Evie Steele, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Ayres added that the buskers haven't offered any alternatives to the regulations.
    — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
  • Bartenders serve stiff drinks to the eclectic clientele, who shuffle tables and chairs around at will, and there is often a samba circle or a busker.
    — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, the band was initially disguised along with Fallon as run-of-the-mill subway buskers rocking out for spare change.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In these novels, the protagonists start at the bottom of the pyramid as stock boys, bootblacks, and immigrant buskers.
    — Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Not long ago, a busker with a mic and a giant white tuba was booming a tune near the Dupont Circle Metro station.
    — Diana Michele Yap, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The buskers will be able to use card readers that plug into their smartphones, which will allow a passer-by to use their contactless card to tip the musician.
    — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 29 May 2018
  • Sometimes the smallest audiences can have the biggest impact — as was the case with busker Armand Davis.
    — Jade Gomez, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024

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