How to Use marching band in a Sentence

marching band

noun
  • Crashing symbols and drum rolls thanks to the live marching band.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Black then introduced a marching band, which made their way down from the top row behind him.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Along the way, there was an over-the-top, head-scratching marching band interlude and a bloody brawl.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The students, who were part of the school’s marching band, were on their way to Pennsylvania for a band camp event.
    — Jessica Xing, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • As a cloudy sky threatened a downpour, the marching band played the school’s fight song, cheerleaders shook pom-poms, and a dance line sashayed.
    — Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
  • To welcome newcomers, the school staged a pep rally with its marching band and its state-champion dance team.
    — Trip Gabriel Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Dylan is on that journey and even the marching band, another department, is now.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The high school marching band’s members sprinted for their lives, still carrying their flutes and saxophones.
    — Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, the school's marching band wears miners' hardhats and flannel jackets.
    — Andy Fies, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2023
  • But by the time Carr joined the freshman class, ASU was better known for its marching band.
    — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Davis has worked sound and lights for the school marching band, theater program, dance program and many other applications.
    — Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Or just show up to watch the parade and take in the dancers, marching band, magicians, one-woman circus variety show, and more.
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Riley Hein — a smiley, gregarious teen who played trombone in the school marching band — was dead.
    — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
  • West Boca High School cheerleaders and members of the school’s marching band helped set the stage.
    — Gary Curreri, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The marching band played on the concourse, the radio talk show went live from the warning track in front of the home dugout and the drone for the television broadcast took flight.
    — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
  • They were welcomed by a local New Orleans marching band known as Trumpet Mafia.
    — Skyler Caruso, People.com, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The pageantry starts with the national anthem, a Sugar Bowl light show and then performances by each school’s marching band.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Just as in the high school marching band state championships this year, the Greendale High School Band took first place in our poll.
    — Maia Pandey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The director of the marching band had brought that sheet music home and subsequently that was the only song played at a home basketball game after the blaze.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
  • The bus was one of six carrying the Farmingdale High School marching band and their chaperones.
    — Tony Aiello, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Cody is remembered as a kind-hearted boy who played saxophone in marching band at Riverside High School.
    — Mitchell Willetts, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
  • On fall game days, the football team and marching band parade onto the field to loud cheers and hollers, fresh out of a Friday Night Lights episode.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • However, the actor soon emerged from the wings with the USC marching band, to the delight of the packed audience.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Iowa high school senior Miranda Estrada is a star student, a trumpet player and a drum major for the school’s marching band.
    — Lilly Umana, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Woody loved to attend parades, especially to cheer for his grandsons in the Litchfield High School marching band.
    — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Mo Chara can’t help but steal a Protestant marching band’s baton, putting in motion a truly stunning chase scene, set to The Prodigy.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Dec. 2024
  • From the marching band and majorette-style dancers to step routines and call-and-response chants, the film embodies the pride, excellence, and history of Black colleges.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Also known as the Aristocrat of Bands, the group also made Grammy history this year as the first marching band to win the award for best gospel roots album.
    — Raquelle Harris, Billboard, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The free event, which will feature cheerleaders and a marching band, starts at Imperial Highway and Main Street.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Martin is interested in a variety of different art forms and genres of instrumental music; whether that is marching band, wind band, or mariachi.
    — Heide Janssen, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026

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