Sentence examples for supporting acts from inspiring English sources

(In any case, many of the supporting acts never showed up).

She fancies having a go at supporting acts in thrillers – "women in suits at the FBI".

Supporting acts in Toronto this year included Belle and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

Sunday at 2 p.m., with a bunch of supporting acts that may or may not show up; tickets are $40 in advance, more at the door (Kelefa Sanneh).

"Revelation" seems like a record to justify a tour, and there's one this summer, with Heart and Cheap Trick as supporting acts.

This year's "American Idols Live!" tour, which features the Top 10 performers of Season 8 on Fox, could have easily passed for an Adam Lambert concert with nine supporting acts.

He is to be joined by an intriguing lineup of supporting acts: the Southern white rapper Bubba Sparxxx, the Asian-American battle rapper Jin and the emerging R&B singer Anthony Hamilton.

Meanwhile, Monáe and her three-man band have been touring like Trojans, supporting acts as diverse as Erykah Badu, No Doubt and Of Montreal and playing festivals as far afield as Moscow.

Bit ­players, who made up some pretty ordinary supporting acts during the first week on ­Centre Court, and broken players, such as Maria Sharapova whose defeat last Wednesday suggested she might have hurried back too quickly after shoulder surgery, proliferate.

Step forward Neal Foulds, Eddie Charlton, Joe Johnson, Kirk Stevens, Cliff Thorburn, Willie Thorne, Bill Werbeniuk, Alain Robidoux, Jim Wych, Doug Mountjoy, Mike Hallett, Silvino Francisco, Tony Meo, Tony Knowles and David Taylor, aka the Silver Fox: all supporting acts who found their names suddenly lit up.

One of hip-hop's natural supporting acts, whose breakthrough hit was a good-natured chant-along homage to his beloved Pittsburgh Steelers football team, Wiz Khalifa has always made for an unlikely crossover star – and an even less convincing bohemian eccentric, the image he has run with since becoming affianced to model Amber Rose.