How to Use bard in a Sentence

bard

noun

• For that one, the bard stepped out from behind the piano, flashing his leather pants and a bit of a stoop.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• Shawn Mendes, the 22-year-old Canadian folk-pop singer with the velour trill, is a bard of puppy love.
  — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 23 Nov. 2020
• Said charming thief is Elgin, a bard, who is played by Chris Pine.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
• The final group Bergeron and Bilodeau observed is the most haphazard: the bards.
  — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• Pine’s character seems to be a bard, shredding on a lute before shredding the air with a sword.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 July 2022
• Now, anyone who's played Dungeons & Dragons knows that bard is a strange class.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• In the words of the immortal bard: Doo doo doo doo dingle zing a dong bone, Ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• Essays have described her as the state’s prophet, its bard, its chronicler.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• The problem was audiences who weren’t well-versed in paladins, druids and bards mostly steered clear.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Fans of great writing knew Roger Angell as a baseball bard without peer.
  — Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• The titular figure, Taliessin, is the bard or minstrel at Camelot.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 3 July 2021
• The story follows the elf Éile (Sophia Brown), a warrior turned bard, as she becomes embroiled in the politics of the empire.
  — Leigh Butler, Time, 25 Dec. 2022
• Is Jaskier the bard that Dijkstra is talking about in his final scene?
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 17 Dec. 2021
• There are different versions of the box as well, such as ones with a wizard, bard, or beholder theme.
  — Sarah Toscano, EW.com, 12 July 2021
• Here was a solo bard asking questions nobody seemed to have answers to.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023
• As luck would have it, the second injection went to a man named William Shakespeare, an 81-year-old who hails from Warwickshire, the county where the bard was born.
  — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020
• The Kubrick imprimatur caused ambivalence: King as art, even though the bard himself publicly hated the film.
  — Armond White, National Review, 18 Aug. 2023
• Take this recent Offbeat Outlaw post in which a rogue yells at his bard for seducing a dragon.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
• The second injection, in a fitting bit of drama, went to an 81-year-old man named William Shakespeare from Warwickshire, the county where the bard was born.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Dec. 2020
• Often, muses are depicted as the breath of inspiration that moves through the poet, the secret author of the bard’s song.
  — Michelle Taylor, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2020
• Payne is the bard of dyspeptic middle-aged men, and no one plays such men better than Giamatti.
  — Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• As a brotherhood of nomads, the bards must have imbued their songs with a yearning for nostos: the homecoming that crowns a hero’s journey.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• As a food writer and a fiction writer, Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• For his second solo outing, the Lower East Side’s most scabrous bard decamped to a London studio.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2022
• Yet the tone is decidedly modern, thanks in large part to Pine’s laissez-faire, ironic energy as the lute-playing Edgin, the bard of this tale.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• One Direction’s Irish bard has always been the soul of warmth and charm, always ready to bust out his acoustic guitar and make a stadium feel like a rowdy pub.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
• In the fifth edition, players can choose characters from nine species, such as dragonborn and half-orc, and a dozen character classes, from bard to warlock.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• Wilson found his vocation as a street poet with a group of neighborhood bards known as the Centre Avenue Poets.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• As a bard of the people, his silence on the situation became too conspicuous to those very people who fought and scraped to pay a lot of money to be in his presence.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2022
• Here was the punk bard of 20th century Ireland, drunken and damaged, but still connected to ancient Celtic spirits, singing with a reckless abandon that gave him a direct channel into the hearts of the clamoring Irish crowd.
  — Rob Curran, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024