How do you use the word "band" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "band" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "band": The band played marvellously under the baton of a new conductor. The band played several marches.

Band Meaning

/bænd/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.

nounA strip of material used for strengthening or coupling., A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.

Sentence Examples

The band played marvellously under the baton of a new conductor.

The band played several marches.

The band has gone on tour to promote their new album.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

lot circle ring

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The marching ____ played a lively tune as it led the parade down Main Street.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The local brass ____ played music in the park every Sunday morning.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bandiz Old English bend Middle English band English band Inherited from Middle English band (also bond), from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandą, *bandiz (“band, fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”). Middle English band reinforced by Old French bande. Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Danish bånd, Swedish band, Icelandic band (“band”). Related to bond, bind, bend.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"band and gusset and seam" — 1843, Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt:

"[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains." — 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:

"For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them." — 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement:

"OLd Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaſter, Haſt thou according to thy oath and band Brought hither Henry Herford thy bold ſon: Heere to make good yͤ boiſtrous late appeale, Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare, Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray?" — 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:

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