How to Use banjo in a Sentence

banjo

noun

• This is a couples’ dance that uses long lines and square dance-style commands—plus the dulcet sounds of fiddle and banjo—to get couples twirling through the dance hall.
  — Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• Bird Jam has a Cadillac hubcap and nitrogen tank as its body, with wings attached to a miniature banjo.
  — Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
• The Packard has an attractive dash and a banjo steering wheel, popular in upscale cars of that era, as were wide white sidewall tires.
  — David Krumboltz, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
• Quinn had the most trouble when attempting to speak backwards while playing a banjo at the same time, both of which required his full concentration.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2017
• At 17, Martin taught himself to play banjo, which later became part of his stand-up comedy shtick.
  — Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
• Rogue frequencies and free-form, howling feedback are left to burn out, while drums, a harmonica, sporadic vocals, and even a banjo fight to keep up.
  — Gregory Taylor, WIRED, 1 June 2001
• Garcia, the bluegrass banjo player who loved Beat poetry and LSD.
  — Jordan Hoffman, VanityFair.com, 26 Jan. 2017
• She's worked throughout her career to draw attention to the African origins of the banjo and the ways Black musicians shaped the country and folk genres.
  — Zachery Eanes, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
• Born in southwestern Virginia, the legendary banjo picker still lived out there at age 74 when David Gates profiled him.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 June 2015
• For most Americans, this lush region conjures the strum of a banjo, the songs of Loretta Lynn and the gentle twang of a thick mountain accent.
  — Jessica Wapner, Newsweek, 19 July 2015
• For Hickenlooper’s boots, that meant images of the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado flag, an aspen tree leaf, a pair of skis and a banjo.
  — Administrator_test, The Denver Post, 23 Jan. 2017
• Bring your banjo, guitar, or fiddle to this celebration of old-time music at Hancock Shaker Village.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2016
• In a shadowy crevasse, a red-nosed clown strummed a banjo in the dark.
  — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• On a long table, kids strummed a banjo and banged on a bass.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 25 June 2017
• The banjo player had almost lost his house in the fires.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2022
• The group members wore West African garments and had drums and a banjo.
  — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 2 June 2024
• The next slide featured a clip of the Pink Panther star flexing his skills on the banjo.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2023
• The name stuck, and so did the band, with Mehta on guitar, Moody on banjo and guitar and now with Masse on bass.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Apr. 2018
• Oh, and if a speaker goes over time, they get cut off with the sound of banjo music.
  — Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 31 July 2023
• The banjo is thought to be descended from the ngoni, a lute from West Africa.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 7 June 2019
• In much of the work, the orchestra acts as Giddens’ banjo.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Daniels, who's been seen on many local stages, learned banjo to play this role, no small trick.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2022
• Antonoff pushed them to use their core strength, the three-part harmonies backed by fiddle and banjo, in new ways.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2020
• What’s going to happen if two people need the four-stringed banjo the same day?
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Rice’s love of bluegrass music prompted him to take up the banjo in 1966.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• Though performed on guitar, the songs were written on the banjo.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 4 May 2022
• And then a reminder that the banjo has its roots in West African stringed gourd instruments.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• But Black artists have long influenced the genre — starting with the banjo.
  — Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
• Metal scraps were all that remained of the banjo and piano.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
• Tarleton took up piano, learned to play the banjo and spent time with her grandkids.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024