Example sentences for: ballad

How can you use “ballad” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "President Lonely" (a ballad)

  • With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, published in 1958 by the University of Texas Press, is not only one of the most important academic works on the history of the Chicano, but it is also respected as major scholarship in the field of folklore studies, and specifically on the genre of the ballad.

  • His classic work, With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, first published in 1958, has become a standard work in Chicano studies and American folklore.

  • It is a study of a border ballad, “El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez,” which looks at the history of the Texas-Mexican border and the life of Gregorio Cortez, and presents an analysis of the man as a ballad hero.

  • It was the main ballad tradition in New Spain until the corrido evolved from it, around the period of Mexico’s independence.


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