Sentence examples for had been singer from inspiring English sources

With the move to Flushing Meadows, what had been Singer Stadium, from the 1964 World's Fair, became Louis Armstrong Stadium, with the Grandstand slapped inelegantly onto the side of it.

This is strange in one whose father and grandfather both had been singers, but it remained a limitation that pursued Beethoven throughout his career.

Then there was the woman claiming to have been Singer's longtime mistress — one of many.

As long as there has been opera, there have been singers giving birth and suffering the consequences.

A different approach came from a Los Angeles band, Stag, which used programmed sounds to create unlikely tangents in what might have been singer-songwriter pop.

Rubio had been courting Singer for weeks.

"Pops had been a singer in a gospel group, the Trumpet Jubilees," Mavis explained.

Neighbors said Mrs. Stiehler had been a singer in her church choir.

Reines had a booming voice, and had been a singer since childhood.

Her mother had been a singer in her youth, and her father was an amateur drummer.

Charles's wife, Louisa Maria (née Turner), had been a singer before their marriage.