How to Use perform in a Sentence

perform

verb

• The class performed the play for the school.
• The band will be performing on the main stage.
• The band will perform songs from their new album.
• The magician performed some amazing tricks.
• She's a wonderful singer who loves to perform before a live audience.
• The doctor had to perform surgery immediately.
• The gymnasts performed their routines perfectly.
• You are required to perform 50 hours of community service.
• In August, the band performed for the first time at halftime of the school’s home football game.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• This would have marked the first time Mullen performed in concert with his band mates since 2019.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Mar. 2024
• Only one of the 23 songs performed over the show’s two hours and 15 minutes didn’t make any use of the horn section at all.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 July 2023
• Will the Jaguars be able to perform under the national spotlight?
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2023
• Hydrafacials are offered in most cities in the US, but all spas have to be licensed to perform them.
  — Danielle Jackson, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• Officers and paramedics performed CPR, but Cao died at the scene, police said.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
• Post Malone is set to perform on New Year's Eve weekend.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Swift is still set to perform in Buenos Aires Saturday.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• That’s the first thing most artists who performed at the 1983 US Festival remember.
  — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
• In a few hours, the musician born S. Holden Jaffe will perform for 200 fans from a tiny stage in a corner of the basement lounge here.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
• The band performed four tracks, all of which appeared on their excellent 2022 album, Blue Rev.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2023
• In 2020, most abortions performed on those from out of state came from Missouri and Indiana.
  — Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• Danylo’s father rushed to his son’s lifeless body, thrown back by the blast, and began performing CPR.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Park employees are taught to perform basic first aid like CPR.
  — Sean Catangui, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• For those who don’t know, Swift performs two surprise songs during each Eras Tour concert.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2023
• Kylie Minogue has been performing at Voltaire since November and takes a break while Aguilera takes her turn.
  — Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2023
• Even dams that should be able to handle the flows from Swain and Huang’s storm would still need to perform perfectly — the water would find any weaknesses.
  — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• Jatta would like to return to the United States to perform and teach and is excited about the people from around the world who are reaching out to him for his thoughts.
  — Aaron Cohen, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024
• Guevara doesn’t take the tracks too seriously, but they’re meant to be played at gay nightclubs and are fun to perform onstage.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• The world was completely different and there were no guarantees at all about how that movie was going to perform in a Covid world.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2024
• Yet today the appearances once made live at the mall are curated and performed on social media.
  — Sarah Chekfa, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024