How to Use gig in a Sentence

gig

1 of 2 noun
  • It was meant to be an eight-month gig.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 9 May 2026
  • For her, this is not just a fun side gig.
    — Kaley Fedko, CBS News, 11 May 2026
  • No, my dad called me up and gave me the gig.
    — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • How much choice did Boutros have with that gig?
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2026
  • First gig with the toilet on the road.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That wasn’t her only gig as a kid.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Sending notes home is a part of the gig.
    — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Burke has already lined up his next gig.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Did the band ever try to get that gig?
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • There were more open mics and more paying gigs.
    — Bill Gurley, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That’s the hardest gig in sports.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
  • That could be enough to land a gig as a third center.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 20 June 2026
  • And the gig wasn't as easy as just opening the door for guests.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But the Dodgers is not your only gig.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Hailey Bieber's got a brand new gig!
    — Hedy Phillips, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • And the side benefit is this gig keeps you fit.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Most actors never get a gig this long.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Like having a roadie in your gig bag, in fact.
    — New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Our second club gig was much more subdued.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Lawrence has gotten pretty good at this gig.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
  • This is not a gig for everybody.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2026
  • Few side gigs seem to suit them better than being a tour guide.
    — Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Her new gig is aiming to share even more of Paul’s life.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Protecting the famed band is a tough gig, though.
    — Andrea Flores jan. 8, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That’s not the case with every acting gig.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
  • That divorced working mom gig was a bear.
    — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Get paying gigs and save your money.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Parkinson’s gig could well be the safest in football.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Everything should be fine for tonight gig.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • And that’s not his only acting gig.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025

gig

2 of 2 verb
  • It’s been years of songwriting, gigging and getting his music out there.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
  • Soon, the band was gigging outside of the region, playing venues within an eight-hour-drive radius.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2025
  • And since that last Genesis gig nearly two years ago, Collins has rarely been seen in public.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
  • There are enough gray areas and complications to gig work taxation that having help from a pro can pay for itself.
    — cleveland, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Is that also from all that DIY gigging and trying to catch the crowd’s attention?
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 3 Feb. 2026
  • But entry barriers undermine the flexibility that draws many people to gig work in the first place.
    — Andrew Garin, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Untuckit, like many retailers, has lost a good chunk of hourly workers to gig jobs that offer more flexibility.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Cody can be found gigging in and around Austin as a support act or fiddle player and has gotten heavily into producing.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But after the pandemic, Kowalczyk let his three bandmates go and began gigging as Live with three new musicians.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2023
  • From open office plans to gig work cons and fast-food franchises, the question of who’s actually in charge has been intentionally obscured.
    — Marie Solis, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2021
  • Our family had spent the day knee-deep in Disillusionment Bay, gigging beach frogs and slugging fireweed tea.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And research suggests that in fact Uber and Lyft brought more private cars onto city streets, partly because drivers acquired new ones to gig for the platforms.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Workers at the highest risk of underpayments are those at restaurants, bars, strip clubs, cleaning services, retail outlets and gig app companies.
    — Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Most gigging local musicians are, at the least, solid or better instrumentalists.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 27 Mar. 2023
  • North was born and raised in San Francisco and started his career gigging around the city with a variety of bands during the Sixties.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The decision lessens the chances that gig drivers will be considered employees in the state, but it is expected to be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
    — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
  • A little over half of side-hustlers started gigging in 2022, when inflation was running much hotter, Bankrate found.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 10 July 2024
  • For years, Jeremy Strong was a relatively anonymous, steadily gigging actor.
    — David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The fact that Murray isn’t going anywhere for at least a couple of years couldn’t have made the Cardinals gig an attractive one in the eyes of Payton.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
  • There was a mystique to the gigging musician wandering the big city in search of work, because this work was creative, improvisational, at times transcendent.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Later, the staunch Republican Charlie Daniels is shown gigging in support of Carter’s re-election.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 29 Dec. 2024
  • The new group released Talkin’ to the Trees earlier this year and spent the summer gigging across Europe and North America.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This was my first clue that the show, which is set in a dive bar and centers on the experiences of gigging independent rockers, intended to take care of me as an audience member in a way that indie music never has.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Or Wolf Alice, a beloved indie-rock band that has gigged incredibly hard over the past decade and recently signed to Sony to kickstart an ambitious new chapter of their career.
    — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In internal talent marketplaces, these skill insights enable businesses to match employees to gig and project work, enhancing agility and strategic workforce planning.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Later that morning, McConnell drove me around Burlington, pointing out where the members of Phish had lived, practiced, hung out, and gigged during the band’s formative years.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Howard Stern gigged in almost half a dozen cities before landing a show at home; much of the Breakfast Club and Ebro in the Morning roster got here by grinding in other markets.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • There’s something to be said about how much Lipa has improved as a performer since her early days of gigging across town at the Belasco and Hollywood Palladium.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Walker was born and raised in San Francisco, began playing the guitar as a kid, and by the late 1960s was gigging around the Bay Area as a teenager.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
  • Almost half a century removed from the start of his club days, the Klein, Texas, native continues to gig with several ensembles and perform the occasional solo concert.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025

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