Example sentences for: performers

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

  • Newsweek explains a new musical hybrid: Rock 'n' rap, a k a "hick-hop," in which white performers such as Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock combine hard rock with the violent themes and outlaw imagery of rap.

  • Street performers — fire jugglers, puppeteers, trapeze artists, musicians (Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman both performed here) — pull big crowds, notably on weekend evenings.

  • If nothing else, the director, John Turteltaub ( Phenomenon , 1996), keeps the performers from drifting into camp.

  • Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).

  • The list of performers and conductors who have graced the Vigadó theatre is an impressive Who’s Who of the past 150 years of European classical music: Liszt, Brahms, Wagner, Mahler, Bartók, Prokofiev, Casals, Björling, and von Karajan.


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