Example sentences for: bess

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

  • He had performed alongside Charlie Parker, led a marvelous quintet with John Coltrane, and collaborated with Gil Evans on such jazz orchestral arrangements as Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess . Davis' 1959 sextet recording, Kind of Blue , became, with its haikulike lyricism, synonymous with cool and provided a soundtrack for nearly every party with intellectual pretensions.

  • "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," from Porgy , has a brushed drum pattern underneath that keeps shifting its emphasis from the first and third beats to the second and fourth, constantly renewing a stirring chill.

  • That was the Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle, a lighter, smaller-bored, more accurate weapon than the Brown Bess.

  • "Paddle Bess Meyerson's naked fanny."

  • "Remove the hidden hologram of Bess Truman lifting her dress over her head."


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