How to Use roadie in a Sentence

roadie

noun
  • Like having a roadie in your gig bag, in fact.
    — New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Then a roadie, and for the last two decades, a ligger.
    — Stephen Rea, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • One of the roadies came out to bang away on the piano, the notes more felt than heard, part of the noise.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
  • One by one, musicians and roadies stepped back off the buses and joined them.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Being a roadie in those days meant riding in the back of the truck with the amps and the equipment.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • Mack was Scratch's tour roadie, helping set up and break down his turntables each night.
    — Elahe Izadi, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The brothers got their start in music by being roadies on their sister’s tours.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2023
  • This old Metallica roadie isn’t searching for a rock star on stage.
    — Andrew Nicla, AZCentral.com, 10 July 2019
  • Cleveland lost three straight to finish the roadie, melting down late in each of those contests.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The horse has handled moving from big race to big race by diving into the work like a rock-and-roll roadie.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
  • Mariah even had to wait a beat for a roadie to get a mic stand on the stage early in her half-hour performance.
    — Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The techs, roadies and others who make shows from bars to stadiums happen, can't work if there are no shows.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 20 Mar. 2020
  • When the show was over, the artist headed to the next gig, and the photographer worked with the roadies to break down the stage.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The rolling landscape makes for punchy climbs for the roadies and beautiful scenery for everyone else.
    — Kelton Wright, Time, 6 Mar. 2018
  • There’s no band to pay, nor roadies or hotel bills, or any of the other costs of traveling around the country.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Momoa played him like the world’s most valiant roadie for the Allman Brothers.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Sandy Alcantara goes for his fourth win to wrap the roadie on Wednesday,.
    — Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Bring a hardtail or short-travel mountain bike, a gravel bike (not a roadie), and an extra set of lungs.
    — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
  • The roadie will also be able to have a meal with Simmons and will even be introduced to the crowd at the gig.
    — Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The dancer in the baby suit was ultimately walked off the stage by a roadie, and never returned.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Further out from the urban core, fat-tire e-bikes share space on trails with three-wheelers, retro-style cruisers, and slick roadies.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
  • The large teddy bear of a man served as a roadie and personal assistant to the band from their early days to their breakup.
    — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
  • In fact, this is their first roadie longer than five games since February 2022.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And by the way, Wichita State has lost exactly eight roadies in the last five years.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • In May, the former roadie for the band Smash Mouth moved into his own apartment.
    — Grace Hase, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • When a roadie handed him a pink Hello Kitty guitar for one song, he wasn’t thrown at all by the prank.
    — Courtney Devores, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2024
  • Dallas has won nine of past 12 roadies in this series, and Washington has lost five straight games at home.
    — Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The speaker is a roadie for King Crimson, which made it to the small-time and has stayed there for more than 50 years.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Mar. 2022
  • That includes bar wait staff, roadies and audience members − and teens and adults who blast music through earbuds or headphones.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The final name came from a running joke between the band and Chris Adamson, the roadie whose voice opens the album.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023

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