How to Use boy band in a Sentence

boy band

noun
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  • And fans of the group fully believe in the boy band’s message of hope.
    — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Kenny, a boy band manager, writes a truly cringe-worthy song…so, that feels right.
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Who was the greatest English boy band to sweep through America?
    — Micolette Davis, Chron, 27 Oct. 2020
  • One Direction mania jumped across the pond and initiated a new era of boy band worship.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Payne achieved global fame with the English Irish boy band One Direction.
    — Hannah Peart, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Fans have long worried that the boy band, arguably the biggest in the world, could see their success derailed by South Korea's mandatory military service.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The series plonks the seven-member boy band into absurd situations, from staffing a daycare center to caring for a menagerie of monkeys, raccoons and walruses at a local zoo.
    — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Jin, the oldest member of the K-pop boy band, turns 28 on Friday, Dec. 4, but the celebration could've marked an end to his career.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 1 Dec. 2020
  • When One Direction arrived in America in 2011, the five-member British boy band took the pop world by storm.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2024
  • From boy band frontman heartthrob to buzzy actor to flamboyant fashion icon, December cover star Harry Styles has enjoyed a career marked by big, bold moves.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Styles is big on friendship groups and considers his former and legendarily hysteria-inducing boy band, One Direction, to have been one of them.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Martin was in a rock group and Zitron had been in a boy band.
    — Alexei Barrionuevo, Billboard, 15 July 2021
  • Wavedash are some of my best friends in the world, and the greatest living EDM boy band.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 May 2021
  • There’s a new boy band in town, and it’s made up of three old British men doing U.K.
    — Vulture, 22 Sep. 2022
  • By starting off in first place, the boy band earned their first No. 1, and not just on that list.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
  • This turn marks the second atop the list for the tune, one of the most popular by the beloved Filipino boy band.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The younger brother of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter, the pop and hip-hop singer used to tour with the boy band in the late 1990s.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The Philadelphia Eagles' tight end crew looked like a boy band straight out of the '80s.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
  • For as much as dance-pop was a force in the 1980s, teenage girls were just looking for a reason to swoon for the five-piece boy band.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
  • In 2019, the defense ministry ruled the boy band would not be exempted.
    — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And at the very center is mega-successful boy band BTS.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • But Branch’s boy band brothers step back into the picture and shake up the status quo.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Ringo Starr One quarter of the best boy band to ever do it, Starr was born on July 7.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Echoing Gary’s vibe, the team styled his entire entourage like a cheesy Black boy band.
    — Tomris Laffly, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The company’s main artists include K-pop boy band 2PM and girl group Twice.
    — Ardian Wibisono, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Charming is the man who never forgets his boy band roots.
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Horan was the only member of the British boy band native to Ireland.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Move over, One Direction: There’s a new five-piece, British, hunky boy band in town.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Irish boy band Westlife is headed to North America to tour for the first time.
    — Spin Staff, Spin, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Stray Kids are now just the second K-pop boy band to earn more than one gold album in the United States.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024

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