How to Use ballad in a Sentence

ballad

noun

• The top five each perform a ballad and then an up-tempo song.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2021
• The day the cast sang the ballad in episode two was really powerful.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
• The track, a soaring ballad that fits like a glove on the movie, also serves as a standalone single.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
• Imagine such a ballad serving as the atlas of a borderless world. . . .
  — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
• Even John Legend turned the Coney Island quotes into a ballad.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2021
• There’s a reason any number of Lauper's most enduring hits have come in the form of emotional ballads.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Nov. 2024
• Here, a ballad of longing and fragile possibility takes on a deeper dimension, one of hope but also of rueful what-might-have-been.
  — Ann Hornaday, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2021
• The Liechty siblings sweetly dedicated their ballad to one another.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 14 Dec. 2021
• Jaskier apparently found time to write a ballad about Filavandrel, which seems to annoy the elf about as much as Geralt’s anthem annoys him.
  — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• What follows is a sad ballad rendered beautifully by a master chronicler of American antiheroes.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
• Some rock musicians would be frustrated by being primarily associated with a ballad.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 8 Dec. 2021
• 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 track includes raps, bursts of high-speed dance music and even a verse in the style of a rock ballad.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2022
• 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
• One of Spears’ most successful ballads returns this week in the U.K.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024