Recent Examples on the WebDepending on height, shoppers vary between using it as a blouse or dress, with some belting or layering it, as preferred.—Grace Smith, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024 Their voices join in an ocean of crooning, wailing and belting that swells nightly from dance floors in places like the old-school Mel-O-Dee Cocktails in El Cerrito, Effie’s in Campbell, the Mint in San Francisco and dozens of celebrated others.—John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024 Leading lady Eden Espinosa gives it her all, gamely delivering all of Gould’s unnecessary belting and Kreitzer’s leaden dialogue.—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024 The 22-year-old’s warm tone and emotive belting earned her a swift four-chair turn from the coaches.—USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024 Early albums like Blue Moon and Dream Walkin’ are filled with heartbroken belting and tearful power ballads that practically beg for placement on the soundtrack of a Jerry Bruckheimer production.—Nadine Smith, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024 As the aged mom, Megan Mulally does her whole performance with a kind of an elderly lisp thing, albeit with moments of belting breaking through that.—Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023 As a result, there’s a void in the center of this show that gets filled instead by the more sympathetic secondary characters whose songs virtually all conclude with big belting finishes that drew the biggest audience responses on opening night.—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023 Like its predecessor, Guts is filled with bratty pop-punk bangers, hooky alt-rock homages, and introspective piano ballads with room for belting.—Quinn Moreland, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
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