Sentence examples for thing band from inspiring English sources

We're all familiar with these lies—"My dog is sick," "I have a thing," "Band practice," "Actually I'm trying not to drink anymore," "I'm not your girlfriend anymore," "I think you have the wrong number".

"[James] is quite keen to do a disco thing," band-mate Al Doyle said in 2008.

Aside from Mr. Stipe's stylishly skewed hat, they could have been any agreeable guests, admitting cheerfully that greatest-hits albums are the kind of thing bands usually do when they run out of ideas.

If celebrities want to help west Africa, there are three things Band Aid might want to say in their new lyrics about the Ebola crisis.

The musicians were recruited from New York's plentiful ranks of talented singer-songwriters; they are, among other things, band members, subway buskers, recent graduates of the Berklee College of Music, and a journalism student who writes about music.

One Southwest Conference band director stated, "I dread going against the Aggie Band.... What is so humiliating is to see the Aggie Band do things band directors talk about as being impossible, and do them perfectly.

There's the whole synth-band thing, with bands that sound like Jesus Jones, and then there's the Gang of Four postpunk thing.

In retrospect, however, I wish I'd brought two things: Band-Aids and more sunscreen.

Their desire for grandiosity leads them to do things bands haven't done in decades.

It keeps doing the things bands do when they don't really know what to do: concentrating on riffs instead of melodies, production dynamics instead of songs.

Grunge artists considered these bands "cheesy" but nonetheless enjoyed them; Buzz Osborne of the Melvins described it as an attempt to see what ridiculous things bands could do and get away with.