How to Use boy band in a Sentence
boy band
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Close enough that '90s boy band Next wrote a song about it.
—Amanda Mitchell, Marie Claire, 25 Feb. 2019
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Martin was in a rock group and Zitron had been in a boy band.
—Alexei Barrionuevo, Billboard, 15 July 2021
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His band matched the look, giving them a '90s boy band vibe.
—Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2018
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This wasn't the first time a Jenner crossed paths with the iconic boy band.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Dec. 2018
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And fans of the group fully believe in the boy band’s message of hope.
—Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
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Wavedash are some of my best friends in the world, and the greatest living EDM boy band.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 3 May 2021
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There’s a new boy band in town, and it’s made up of three old British men doing U.K.
—Vulture, 22 Sep. 2022
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By starting off in first place, the boy band earned their first No. 1, and not just on that list.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
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And no boy bands have stepped up to take 1D’s place, leaving a big hole in the market.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 23 Aug. 2019
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Each team will perform two dances, set to hits by boy bands and girl groups.
—Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 29 Oct. 2019
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Not to scare you, but one of these guys is a boy band manager.
—Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 30 Sep. 2020
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This turn marks the second atop the list for the tune, one of the most popular by the beloved Filipino boy band.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
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The breakout boy band has played Houston just once, way back in 2015.
—Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2020
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The younger brother of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter, the pop and hip-hop singer used to tour with the boy band in the late 1990s.
—Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
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The 24-year-old pop artist, the breakout star of boy band One Direction.
—Emily Yahr, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
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Liam Payne, who rose to fame as part of the British boy band One Direction, is dead at 31.
—Kimi Robinson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2024
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Stokes and Houston are members of the R&B boy band Immature which first came to fame in the 1990s.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
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Free of his boy band, Styles exults in sound, not image.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
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The boy band came close to One Direction's record for biggest week for a group.
—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 2 Mar. 2020
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The Philadelphia Eagles' tight end crew looked like a boy band straight out of the '80s.
—Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
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For as much as dance-pop was a force in the 1980s, teenage girls were just looking for a reason to swoon for the five-piece boy band.
—Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
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In 2019, the defense ministry ruled the boy band would not be exempted.
—Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
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The South Korean boy band with very loud fans won the Social Artist award.
—refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
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They were joined by several friends dressed as members of the '90s boy band.
—Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2019
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And at the very center is mega-successful boy band BTS.
—Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 28 June 2024
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Five is the ideal number for a girl group or a boy band, but is that enough to call yourself an army?
—Taiia Smart Young, Essence, 1 July 2020
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But Branch’s boy band brothers step back into the picture and shake up the status quo.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
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Ringo Starr One quarter of the best boy band to ever do it, Starr was born on July 7.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
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Williams has just been kicked out of boy band Take That and finds himself on the precipice of stardom or obscurity.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 7 Feb. 2025
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The Backstreet Boys aren't the only boy band featured in the documentary with memories of bad styling.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
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