How to Use belting in a Sentence

belting

noun

• The Ozzman himself sounds great, with the same rich, belting tone that helped make No More Tears a triumph.
  — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Mar. 2023
• As birdsong goes, their act was like a five-year-old belting opera.
  — Tarpley Hitt, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
• This time around, the pics featured leather and a lot of belting, inspired by the 90s theme of her newest collection.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 30 Oct. 2020
• The team tied the game with a belting volley by Ivan Perisic 10 minutes after going 1-0 down.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 July 2018
• Case in point: the colorful fabric belting, rainbow accents, and a leather patch on the back.
  — Emma Ciufo, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Oct. 2015
• The overhead lights dimmed, the runway lights gleamed, and the sound system blasted Barbra Streisand belting show tunes.
  — Karen Chee, ELLE, 13 Sep. 2022
• The hardcore synth production is powered by melancholy belting from Jimin, Jin and Jungkook, as the band pleads with a lover to stay.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 June 2018
• As the youngest member flexed his monstrous belting range without faltering, excited gasps and yells would burst from the crowd.
  — Natalie Morin, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2022
• On the stroke of half-time, Mané silenced his former supporters and blasted Liverpool into the lead with a belting strike.
  — SI.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• But this pairing of the quiet, raspy-voiced guy and the drama-starter with the Christina Aguilera-level belting is still so random and wonderful.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 4 May 2020
• Willow took the the SNL stage like a damn pro — glaring, belting, screaming in her platform Converse and feline black eyeliner.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2022
• The Academy Award-winning actress's performance had her belting brassy show tunes with twitchy élan one minute and fending off heartbreak with booze and pills the next.
  — Hugh Hart, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2019
• 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
• In fact, tropes and archetypes are the engines of this film, thinly sketched characters whose development seems to have been jettisoned for endless belting.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• Her signature pop-rock style and belting vocals have turned her into a household name for popular music.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
• 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
• The staging itself was impressive, but Rodrigo’s vocal performance was enough of a draw on its own — from the tender opening notes to some massive belting toward the end.
  — Ryan Reed, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2021
• Urban looked overjoyed to be there, taking lead vocals on the first verse and setting the stage for H.E.R. — amazingly cool in a baggy purple shirt and shades — to chime in with her own guitar solos and effortless belting.
  — Annie Zaleski, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2021
• Tammy Faye, with her helium speaking voice and peppy gospel-tune belting—not to mention her clown-on-the-town makeup, which became more garish and extreme as the duo became richer—was lively and sugary and fun to mock.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Sep. 2021
• It’s closer to the country of earlier generations than to arena-country belting.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2016
• These are just five Christmas songs made for belting, jamming and headbanging during the holiday season, so my colleagues and I created a Spotify playlist with even more Christmas bangers.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 16 Dec. 2020
• Choose from dark or medium brown belting leather, or get extra wild with crocodile print, ostrich print or genuine Western diamondback rattlesnake inlay.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• This is their first collaboration since the debut of their 2007 duet album Raising Sand, in which Plant took a slightly more mellow vocal approach in comparison to his infamous raw and powerful belting.
  — oregonlive, 20 May 2022
• 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
• The group has more than enough firepower with four members, whose vocals quickly become distinctive after a few listens: Hernandez’ brassiness, Kordei’s muscle, Jauregui’s clear-as-glass timbre and Hansen’s diva-size belting.
  — Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
• The cast — made up of varied body types and ethnicities, suggesting a nod toward diversity and representation — had the opportunity to showcase their vocal agility right from the start, foreshadowing the belting that was to come.
  — Brandon T. Harden, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• As Judas, Dixon led spectacular numbers such as 'Superstar' that required athleticism and some seriously soulful belting.
  — Randee Dawn, latimes.com, 14 June 2018

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024