How to Use mixtape in a Sentence

mixtape

noun
  • My mixtapes were hot and my album was hot.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Take it back to the good ole' days by burning a mixtape for your crush.
    — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The mixtape climbs to the top for the first time in its 28th week on the chart.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2021
  • This nigga was passing out mixtapes on the last day of school.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The chorus of 'wild boy' is sampled from our song on his mixtape.
    — Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • But the rest are more like songs on a dusty mixtape found in a bottom drawer.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Back in the day, the artist would drop a mixtape before the album came out.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Her reason for calling it a mixtape?
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 26 Nov. 2025
  • When the beat drops to this iconic mixtape hit, grab your girls and prepare to rap your heart out.
    — Gene Hunter, Essence, 14 June 2022
  • There’s a Depeche Mode feel to this mixtape.
    — Thomas Smith, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Bagley touched on the idea of not being selected first on his mixtape.
    — Jason Jones, sacbee, 23 June 2018
  • Yo, someone loop that shiz as a backing track for Sam’s next mixtape!
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Little is known about the mixtape, which the rapper has been teasing for over a year.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Think about rewinding or making a mixtape for your recent crush.
    — Rotem Rozental, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
  • This song was probably on 80% of the mixtapes of the mid-aughts.
    — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • But don't just hand out mixtapes or inspirational posters to the high school grad in your life.
    — Mark Stock, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The result was rambling, like a charming yet sweaty mixtape.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Thompson was killed less than a month before his debut mixtape was set to be released.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026
  • As the cast and crew celebrated each other on stage, the mixtape came back on.
    — Ben Fong-Torres, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Each of the game’s playable skaters is featured in a mixtape showing off signature moves.
    — Jamal Michel, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • And words on a screen just aren't as romantic as a handwritten set list in the back of a mixtape case.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2018
  • The mixtape is the fifth in the Mac & Cheese series, as its name suggests.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And a full decade since the release of his debut mixtape, 10 Day.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2022
  • While the mixtape itself hasn’t proved to be a standout win, one track from the effort has become a hit.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • The killer’s mixtape of choice, for example, consists of songs by the Smiths.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But one of the most tragic casualties of the streaming era has to be the mixtape.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Sep. 2021
  • And last year’s pinkPrint mixtapes pushed the envelope even further.
    — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The tune served as the only single from his latest mixtape on his own, D-2.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • The choice to perform Diffie songs is tied to a new mixtape being released by Hardy.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Anycia did the same with her latest mixtape, Grady Baby.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025

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