How to Use performing in a Sentence

performing

adjective
  • On Immelt's watch, GE has been the Dow's worst performing stock among companies that haven't gone bankrupt or left the group of blue-chip stocks.
    Hamza Shaban, courant.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The Canadian dollar has slumped, and is the worst performing currency among Group of 10 nations this year.
    Katia Dmitrieva, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
  • The Friends are a nonprofit fundraising arm for the historic performing arts venue in downtown Campbell.
    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
  • This Rogers Park fest highlights the neighborhood’s thriving visual and performing arts hub.
    Web Behrens, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2019
  • One benefit of the new performing arts wing involves the High School students once again performing as a full symphony.
    John Benson, cleveland.com, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Why shouldn't its visual and performing arts activity be extended to other parts of the Empire State?
    Ash Carter, Town & Country, 15 May 2015
  • Outdoor music, an indoor performing arts stage, interactive exhibits and loads of hand-on crafts are just some of its offerings.
    Sonja Haller, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2015
  • The few artists who have spoken out have seen their economic and performing prospects in mainland China annihilated overnight.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
  • For Murdoch, buying the 61 percent of Sky that Fox does not currently own would give his company full control of a strongly performing business to which the media mogul has a special attachment.
    Michael J. De La Merced, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The money went for visual and performing arts programs, education, and cultural events.
    Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
  • The district’s visual and performing arts coordinator, Robyn MacNair, has high hopes for them and the conservatory program.
    Kenya Barrett, Orange County Register, 7 June 2017
  • The Booth, which opened to students earlier this academic year, is essentially a three-story rectangle within which any director has expansive options, from where to place the audience seating to where the performing space itself should be.
    Jeremy D. Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Major performing and visual arts institutions had already begun to shutter.
    Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
  • This category recognizes the written excellence, profession and art of songwriting for non-performing and non-producing songwriters.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 21 June 2022
  • That includes performing water quality tests or taking photographs.
    David Kravets, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2017

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