Sentence examples for struggling solo from inspiring English sources

He was a backup musician and struggling solo artist before he was discovered in a New York City club and sent to England, where he broke out as the leader of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

When I ask why the top Oscar contenders – The Revenant (12 nominations), Mad Max: Fury Road (10) and The Martian (seven) - are all tales of men struggling solo in the wilderness, he correctly brings it straight back to cash.

Elsewhere, Cate Blanchett picked up best actress for her much-heralded turn in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine as a rich Manhattan socialite fallen into penury, while Robert Redford won best actor for his portrayal of a struggling solo yachtsman in the JC Chandor drama All Is Lost.

"Sun-of-a-gun" I hear several struggling solo violinists and/or ambitious orchestra players exclaim in my vivid imagination.

After years of struggling as solo artists, the trio created the catchy seduction song In2 in a late-night recording session earlier this year.

If anything, Ryan could have replaced Solo with Scurry after Solo struggled in the World Cup opener against North Korea.

Mike Lamb, starting at third base in place of the struggling Ensberg, hit a solo homer off Matt Morris in the fourth that made it 4-3.

The central section was a passage of barely contained anarchy, a solo piano struggling to assert its Baroque order amid otherworldly wailings from the orchestra.

But perhaps its peculiar genesis – born out of jam sessions, moulded into shape by Blur's other protagonist – is what prevents The Magic Whip from suffering the fate of 2002's largely Coxonless Think Tank: an album that had plenty of great songs, but felt like a Albarn solo project struggling to pass itself off as a band effort.

You can sense Ms. Monk, who comes off about as Creole as Bella Abzug, and Leo Burmester, as a salty police officer, struggling to turn their solos into showstoppers.

Perhaps a little rusty after the long layoff, Rapinoe's last action of the night was a mistimed lunge to concede the set-piece converted by Usme, as Solo struggled to see past the wall.