How to Use headliner in a Sentence

headliner

noun

• He was the headliner at a local night club.
• There are also paved trails around the park, but the trails are the headliner.
  — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Clark is the headliner of this youth movement, of course.
  — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 24 May 2024
• Travis Scott will return to the stage as a headliner next month.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 1 Aug. 2022
• On the bill: a slew of headliner-sized names singing songs by Jewish artists.
  — Jeff Miller, Variety, 6 Dec. 2022
• But the movie’s headliner was Carl Weathers — for once not a sideman, but the star.
  — Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• At the time, Oct. 8 was penciled in as not just the SEC game of the year, but a national headliner.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 4 Oct. 2022
• The arrangement was meant to showcase the whole Cuban team, but Cruz was the headliner.
  — Morgan Campbell Todd Heisler, New York Times, 24 June 2023
• Remember your helmet and bike lights since the sun has set by the time the headliner wraps up.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 27 Mar. 2024
• In a league of unknown players, the coaches are the headliners.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2023
• Sometimes big-time headliners don’t want to have too much heat in front of them.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024
• The event started in 2010, and this year has nabbed Janet Jackson and Kendrick Lamar as headliners.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 Sep. 2023
• The window-lift switches are on the center console—not the headliner, as was the case in the Milano.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2023
• Cano was far from a headliner in the Orioles’ return for Jorge López.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
• The second headliner, Kane Brown, was announced the next day.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2024
• The headliner was Monday evening’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Marc Jacobs show.
  — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 29 June 2023
• While Bryan was a model headliner to close out the night, the day was an eventful one leading up to his set.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• The evening begins with a children’s performer followed by the headliners at 6 p.m. 5 to 8 p.m. Free.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• Of course, the six-time CMT award winner and rising country star is on tour now as a headliner.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
• The headliners, of course, are the Royals’ starting pitchers.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2024
• The kids were travelling with the Pumpkins on the band’s stadium tour with Green Day, the headliner.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• Castro, Lenin, Stalin, Tito and Mao rank among the headliners.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• This is a group of people who (were) about to perform on stage with the headliner and were not given passes.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
• The headliner on the sunroof can also be seen as sagging.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 28 June 2022
• But many voters don’t want anything to do with a party that’s clueless enough to keep Mr. Trump as the headliner of its show.
  — Dave Seminara, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• Monsta X will be the day 1 headliner for the Las Vegas fest’s first night of concerts on April 21.
  — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2023
• Kaskade, the event's headliner, previously played the Snake Pit in 2015.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Jan. 2023
• On nights when there is a headliner, that set comes next for 75-minutes, followed by a late-night party with more cabaret.
  — Melinda Sheckells, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• Barenaked Ladies served as the night’s headliner, made clear by a setlist featuring 20-plus songs.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 3 July 2022
• But he’s been a bankable festival headliner for years and has been rubbing shoulders with the top-tier of artists for even longer.
  — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024