How to Use busker in a Sentence

busker

noun

• In this corner of Philly, Puryear is much more than a busker.
  — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
• Bryan, then, jumped out of the car and started dancing in the street with the Cleveland busker.
  — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 20 July 2017
• A box of Kleenex was passed like a busker’s hat at a variety show.
  — Catherine Porter Photographs and Video By Leslye Davis, New York Times, 25 May 2017
• The sound of a busker playing a trumpet can carry for blocks.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• These buskers range in musical style from rock and blues to folk and R&B and even jazz and big band.
  — AL.com, 26 May 2017
• Other buskers have since challenged Puryear for the same spot.
  — Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
• Angelique said Shader, who goes by Sam, plays the ukulele and spent years on the road working as a busker.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 4 June 2020
• Why go through all the trouble to be an Undergound busker?
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2017
• Guests will enter the gala at Bowery Street, where a busker and paparazzi will greet them in the parking lot.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• But others say street artists with their spray cans breathe life into a place the way a busker does with a guitar.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
• Ahead of the rose ceremony, Michelle and Rick, 32, strolled around the block and stopped to dance by a busker playing piano.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• Al convinces them to give up thievery and become buskers, sort of a fez-wearing boy band.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
• Music fills the bars, but also the streets, where buskers entertain tourists and lunch-hour diners.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Not long ago, a busker with a mic and a giant white tuba was booming a tune near the Dupont Circle Metro station.
  — Diana Michele Yap, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
• In what might be the world’s first, London has introduced a way for passers-by to tip buskers with cashless payments.
  — Natasha Bach, Fortune, 29 May 2018
• Cherry played every character: a man readying for a date, a butcher on the street, a truck driver, and a busker.
  — Kelsey McKinney, GQ, 8 Oct. 2017
• Eight of the buskers, including Gilday, were competing for the 2018 People’s Choice Award.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• On the tidy Pearl Street Mall, crowds were gathered by burbling fountains to watch buskers, jugglers and flame-swallowers.
  — Tony Perrottet, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2016
• Hollywood Boulevard will be reopened to tourists and buskers.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The global hit is a bouncy, fun song, but it was born out of Watson's frustration while being a busker in her home of Australia.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 29 Nov. 2020
• Instead, the band was initially disguised along with Fallon as run-of-the-mill subway buskers rocking out for spare change.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
• Boutiques, restaurants, and buskers give the marketplace a vital (and hectic) feel.
  — Claire Dederer, ELLE Decor, 27 May 2011
• Look for mimes, buskers and street performers throughout the festival.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
• Boston busker is living his dream Randall, 39, has been playing bagpipes for around 15 years and busking for more than a decade.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• In one, an elderly man hears buskers on the metro playing an old military march and recalls a wartime love affair.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• In these novels, the protagonists start at the bottom of the pyramid as stock boys, bootblacks, and immigrant buskers.
  — Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
• Bartenders serve stiff drinks to the eclectic clientele, who shuffle tables and chairs around at will, and there is often a samba circle or a busker.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The bruin busker that delights locals and tourists alike on the streets of Boston has sustained an injury that has kept him from accepting at least one gig.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
• There are no cops patrolling on foot, no buskers with guitars and collection tins, no homeless men seeking spare change for bus fare.
  — Staff, Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2020
• He was particularly bothered by buskers, who played loud music outside his office.
  — Sam Fortier, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024