How to Use disco in a Sentence

disco

1 of 2 noun
  • What’s the best disco ball to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The disco ball felt like an apt metaphor to Score.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The rink was metal bars and a tiny disco ball.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Later in the evening, a jazz club and disco opened.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Who needs more when your look doubles as a disco ball, after all?
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2 July 2023
  • Her gold dress refracts the light over the entire room like a disco ball.
    — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Thinking about making out more and disco-ing all night long this year?
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There wasn’t a disco ball spinning from the ceiling or sleek dance floors.
    — Cecilia Lei, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Prince William at the disco (there’s a song title in that).
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • Then a couple just fun unique touches, like gold disco balls over the dance floor.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • There was a lot of stuff going on, and the disco thing was getting stronger and stronger.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Or what a Kurt Weill prog disco album would sound like.
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • There was a disco on every ship and they'd usually be filled at night.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The reflection of the disco ball flickered off the wall as wind chimes played.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And this cherry disco ball decor piece takes the disco ball trend to the next level.
    — Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The song won a Grammy for best disco recording.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Inside the disco, the dance floor was filled with guests of all ages from beginning to end.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Later, there was a disco number.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The dedicated teens’ club has video games, a disco floor, karaoke and a spot for fun drinks and snacks.
    — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 25 May 2023
  • My friend Ben chewed pink gum under the disco ball and timed his bubble to burst with the beat drop.
    — Geoffrey Mak, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2023
  • There were jazz clubs and discos in lofts in SoHo and other places.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Here Lies Love is ready to shake up Broadway — to a disco beat.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 June 2023
  • Cue the music and drop the disco ball for this throwback event in Spenard.
    — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
  • Come here after dinner to dance and mingle under the disco balls at this stylish new lounge.
    — Rana Good, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Anyone who doesn’t have a backlog of references about disco should avoid it at all costs.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The playlist is classic soul and ’90s hip-hop, with a few discos tunes thrown in early evening.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • What a week indie-disco darlings The Killers have ahead of them.
    — Matt Slater, New York Times, 23 May 2026
  • Cue up the disco playlist and get ready for your new cold-weather ritual with the guide below.
    — Callie Sumlin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Nearby, the dance space was lit with a mix of lanterns and disco balls glittering along the ceiling.
    — Kaitlin Menza, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Gold, orange, purple, and red disco tiles all match the changing shades of the season.
    — Claire Hoppe, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2023

disco

2 of 2 verb
  • After the screening, I was asked to write a ballad score and disco vocal for a dance scene.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Here, the soundtrack is just as important—and eclectic—as the drinks, switching seamlessly from funk to disco to jazz.
    — Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Cancún tends to be more party heavy year-round, with bass-thumping beach clubs and discos like Coco Bongo.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Early on, Gerwig used the Bee Gees and ’70s discos as a reference point for Ronson.
    — Maria Sherman, Fortune, 18 July 2023
  • The sassy backing vocals in the chorus are a more retro touch, harkening not just to disco but the funk and R&B of the ’70s and ’80s at large.
    — Vulture, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Yubin’s debut single draws on ‘80s disco and soft rock, sprinkling the playful melody with funky instrumentals, sweet harmonies, and playful synths.
    — Tamar Herman, Billboard, 5 June 2018
  • Leftover Halloween decorations hung overhead as people rocked and swayed on the Gossip Grill dance floor to a range of music genres, from Afrobeats to disco.
    — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Set to disco music, the improvisational dance form created by Black and Latino communities incorporates jazz, martial arts, rapid arm movements and poses.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2020

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