How to Use call-and-response in a Sentence

call-and-response

noun

• Other howls join across the room now, an eerie call-and-response.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Bounce music is a heavy bass, call-and-response style of hip-hop that originated in New Orleans in the 1980s.
  — Nicole Acheampong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
• This performance might be best served with a generous helping of call-and-response and a dash of theatrics.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• One is the call-and-response between the full-throated wail of Prince's vocal on the chorus and the squealing lead guitar that answers every line.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
• Before fights, the star talent leads fans in call-and-response chants, working in an idiom that’s equal parts Muhammad Ali, boom-bap rap and Zen koan.
  — Giri Nathan, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Attwell employs the call-and-response dynamic that’s been the domain of theatre and church from the very beginning.
  — Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The tone of the Wednesday evening session was mostly triumphant, packed with call-and-response exchanges and upbeat music.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
• These leaders play a central role in the masquerade by invoking call-and-response chants known as spellings.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
• The procedure that the hospital hopes to initiate is not the only call-and-response under threat here.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• Danny Brown, an audience member, invited the crowd to rise to their feet for a call-and-response rally.
  — NBC News, 29 June 2023
• And on Monday, a masked man led a call-and-response chant by protesters on a crowded Manhattan subway car.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 14 June 2024
• His body sways, as if possessed by an otherworldly force, and his voice drums with a longing to connect with the audience for this call-and-response song.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
• The campaign has been responsive to what is trending day to day on the platform, creating a kind of call-and-response between itself and Harris fans.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2024
• Advertisement Behind him, a group of men hoisted a bullhorn-wielding friend on their shoulders to lead a call-and-response.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The demonstration began, and Ahmed spoke first, doing his best to distill his discursive style into something closer to call-and-response.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
• Here, Flores indulged in an unusual call-and-response with the audience, who happily played along.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• The video featured a series of call-and-response exclamations in between shots of Ukrainian troops who appeared to be preparing for battle.
  — Emily Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 10 June 2023
• The quintessential crunk anthem, produced by Lil Jon, boasts an explosive energy, heavy bass, and call-and-response style lyrics.
  — Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 17 June 2024
• Semira is adept at knowing when to interlace perfect concert call-and-response moments into their rhymes.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024
• And with their roaring guitars, ringing piano, and propulsive drums, the Hold Steady came out of the gate with the day’s most unabashed rock ‘n’ roll, though the call-and-response and audience clapping in rhythm fit solidly within the folk tradition.
  — Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
• Sting remained one of rock’s kings of call-and-response, leading several singalongs throughout Tuesday’s shows.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2024
• Euphoria moment at the shots of the human mega-fans in the audience, dressed up in their own vampire cosplay, mouthing along to the words and shouting out in call-and-response moments like some kind of protozoic Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 19 May 2024
• Their call-and-response structure also helps play up their complementary tones while remaining true to the anthemic nature of power soca.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 2 May 2024
• In an earlier scene, Cox performs a call-and-response banjo duet with a young native (Billy Redden) in an iconic musical sequence.
  — Rhett Bartlett, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• The two-channel video installation is tucked into the back of the gallery space and immediately immerses viewers into a call-and-response rap session.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Some of them enthusiastically parroted several of the mayor’s call-and-response chants from the stage.
  — Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• The art of the exchange — be it through characters sharing double entendres or entire theaters getting caught up in call-and-response — is characteristic of film noir, midnight movies, and, yes, sing-a-longs.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 July 2024
• The format, which simulates the call-and-response familiar from blues and other Southern Black music traditions, lets each poem offer up several points-of-view at once.
  — June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• His wife then decided, whether in celebration or competition, to sing the jaleo—that hell-raising-flamenco call-and-response—with the senior Hermoso, Fernando, who turned out to have a great voice.
  — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 May 2024
• Start with simple melodic phrases, some call-and-response and the music gains momentum, complexity, and intensity until the notes reach a ringing climax that inevitably brings cheers and air slide guitar from the crowd.
  — cleveland, 20 July 2023

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025