BAND in a Sentence

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233 example sentences for BAND, such as:

1. The military band paraded the streets.
2. A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
3. She wore a simple band of gold on her finger.
4. Little is known about the third member of the band.
5. That elastic band will snap if you stretch it too far.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
band
 n.  a particular range of values, numbers
 n.  a group of musicians who play modern music together
 n.  a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together
Classic Sentence: (168 in 12 pages)
1  She could not breathe; he was choking her; her stays were like a swiftly compressing band of iron; his arms about her made her shake with helpless hate and fury.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  There was a heavy pistol openly in his trouser band and from the top of his tattered boot protruded the hilt of a bowie knife.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  Slipping his knife into his boot top and loosening the pistol in his trouser band, Archie stumped over to the door and flung it open.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
4  Scarlett, looking across the room, saw Rhett reach under his coat tails and produce two revolvers which Archie took and shoved into his waist band.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  Once her sudden entrance abruptly terminated a conversation about what had happened to the members of Quantrill's band of guerillas, and she caught the names of Frank and Jesse James.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
6  Rhett carefully set the baby on the floor and pulled his shirt and undershirt out of his trouser band.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  If their resonant hilarity could never be hers, she contributed a note of easy elegance more valuable to Mattie Gormer than the louder passages of the band.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
8  Lily slipped out last among the band of liberated work-women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  He had tried to please her, then, had touched her by sheepishly wearing a colored band on his straw hat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
10  Aunt Bessie worked her lips as though they were an elastic band.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  The Duluth delegation had brought their famous Beaver amateur band, in Zouave costumes of green velvet jacket, blue trousers, and scarlet fez.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  The band was reorganized, and provided by the Commercial Club with uniforms of purple and gold.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night ...
14  He wore a sombrero hat, with a wide leather band and a bright buckle, and the ends of his moustache were twisted up stiffly, like little horns.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
15  He ran into the storeroom and brought out a gaudily painted harmonica, sat down on a bench, and spreading his fat legs apart began to play like a whole band.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
Example Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
16  That elastic band will snap if you stretch it too far.
17  She wore a simple band of gold on her finger.
18  A band of gray hair encircled his bald dome.
19  The band are hoping to relaunch their career with a new song and a new image.
20  The band played many songs, including some of my favourites.
21  As individual members' solo careers have proved, each band was greater than the sum of its parts.
22  It was punk that first moved him to join a band seriously.
23  It became blatantly obvious to me that the band wasn't going to last.
24  The magazine gives the inside story of life in a rock band.
25  Little is known about the third member of the band.
26  The military band paraded the streets.
27  At the peak of its popularity in the late nineties, the band sold ten million albums a year.
28  All the band experimented with drugs , particularly LSD.
29  He was left holding the financial baby when his musical partner joined another band.
30  Thousands of people paid good money to watch the band perform.