How to Use ballad in a Sentence

ballad

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  • Payne’s inflections shined the most on ballads like these, where there was nothing but vocals and guitars.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The trio — Solo Tres — sings a heartsick Mexican ballad of love and loss.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The powerful ballad about was written by Hilton, along with Sia and Jesse Shatkin.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The emotional ballad honors his life while also capturing how much his absence has impacted her.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 18 Oct. 2024
  • There was a video of the boys rolling the tractor across a dusty concrete backyard as Bumaryam ran in and out of the shot, all of it soundtracked by a sentimental ballad.
    — John Beck, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
  • Serving Whitney-caliber vocals on Tamar Braxton’s ballad, Aliyah was just jaw-droppingly good.
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The first track, a ballad, was originally recorded when Selena was 13, Quintanilla said.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The respite from the chilly Los Angeles night and the turmoil of the outside world was almost over, but not before one last sing-along to a ballad that colored so many audience members’ childhoods.
    — Sasha Urban, Variety, 26 Feb. 2022
  • As on the Global 200, the ballad became Gaga and Mars’ first No. 1 each since the list launched.
    — Gary Trust, Billboard, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The heartfelt ballad topped the U.S. charts 14 weeks after Jim Croce’s death.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
  • With tears in her eyes, Becky sang the ballad while a video montage of her as a child played in the background.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • In terms of writing, there is one ballad in the entire show.
    — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022
  • If there was a ballad in need of Jim Steinman spiking the punch, this was it.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 20 July 2022
  • There's a ballad out there for every kind of love, even the most complex sort of love.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The track starts off as a melodic ballad — a rare moment for Balvin.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Staying true to his core essence, the song is a striking ballad about love.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 24 June 2022
  • The tearjerker ballad, which Bolton co-wrote with Doug James, was an apt choice for the spot.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 June 2022
  • Despite just missing the weekly chart’s apex, the ballad ruled as the list’s No. 1 song for the entire year.
    — Jim Asker, Billboard, 16 May 2023
  • One of the creators, Groth, gives a brief pep talk, then someone plays a James Blake ballad.
    — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • In Ukraine, Paisley sang part of the ballad at a news conference.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Listen to the compression on his voice on some of those big ballads in ’57.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Swayze, who co-wrote the track, is silky smooth on an electric ballad that, like many of the time, also gave good sax.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2022
  • For the stage musical, the creative team decided to close the first act with the ballad.
    — Christopher Wallenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The name of the Bible backed by Trump is inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood’s ballad.
    — Ken Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024
  • For a moment, under the nightclub lights and to the cadence of a power ballad, the lovers feel safe from the world that judges them.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Run the Jewels had a good laugh using the ballad as their walk-up music for their 45-minute set.
    — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2022
  • On one hand, this ballad is a risqué fantasy about falling for the bad boy.
    — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Dion’s ballad capped off a night of pageantry dosed with some frustration.
    — Sean Gregory/paris, TIME, 27 July 2024
  • First up is a waltz to a 1950s ballad, led by Maria Liang who is dressed in a white and black number that sparkles like the string of lights behind her.
    — Corina Knoll Ben Laffin Mark Abramson, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The Texas native, who blends country and R&B for her unique sound, brought the power to the ballad, her vocals echoing through the trees and vast grounds of the park.
    — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 25 Sep. 2022

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