How to Use rhythm and blues in a Sentence

rhythm and blues

noun
  • Cullins is a songwriter who plays guitar with rhythm and blues, soul, funk, jazz and rock influences.
    — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2026
  • Prior to this point, the Dead were intergalactic musical trailblazers with a grounding in the earthy rhythm and blues of this world of ours.
    — Colin Fleming, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • But there was a Marine base there, El Toro Marine base, where a lot of the Black Marines heard that there was these two guys out at the club singing rhythm and blues.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2026
  • Secular music—beginning with blues but later including jazz, rhythm and blues (R&B), and rock and roll—typically voiced more worldly concerns.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Looking to gospel and rhythm and blues music for inspiration, Lennertz and Diggs landed on the rousing, catchy tune that ended up anchoring one of the most memorable set pieces of the entire series.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
  • The first show features Jesse Ray Smith, Kimmi Butter and Rebecca Jade, who will be performing modern rhythm and blues, jazz, modern Americana, and country music.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The first show features Jesse Ray Smith, Kimmi Butter and Rebecca Jade, who will be performing modern rhythm and blues, jazz, modern Americana, and country music.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Jazz’s popularity in the early 1960s was threatened by rhythm and blues and soul music despite the brilliant innovation of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and others.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Since his buzzy arrival, D’Angelo had been anointed rhythm and blues’ golden child, destined to sit at the same table with the likes of soul giants Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, and Al Green.
    — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Within weeks of Universal’s purchase of KUXL, the station hosted a two-hour rhythm and blues show broadcast on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by the only Black radio disc jockey in town, Rio Pardo.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Rock 'n' roll, jazz, rhythm and blues, funk, soul, hip-hop, heavy metal — they can all be traced back to the Mississippi Delta in an incredible American journey, one of many USA TODAY is following in honor of the nation's upcoming 250th birthday.
    — USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The exhibition culminates with THREE SCREEN RAY (2006), a late-career revisiting of his 1961 film COSMIC RAY, acting as an explosive, three-screen visual homage to rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2026

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