How to Use roadie in a Sentence

roadie

noun

• Being a roadie in those days meant riding in the back of the truck with the amps and the equipment.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• When the show was over, the artist headed to the next gig, and the photographer worked with the roadies to break down the stage.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• The speaker is a roadie for King Crimson, which made it to the small-time and has stayed there for more than 50 years.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 20 Mar. 2022
• The hapless Knicks piled up 123 to open this current roadie.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2019
• Cleveland starts a six-game roadie Wednesday against the Nuggets. ...
  — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Momoa played him like the world’s most valiant roadie for the Allman Brothers.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
• The final name came from a running joke between the band and Chris Adamson, the roadie whose voice opens the album.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023
• And by the way, Wichita State has lost exactly eight roadies in the last five years.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Stinkin’ Fish are in Oakland again today in midst of a six-game Western roadie in a season on the rails to hell.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
• The horse has handled moving from big race to big race by diving into the work like a rock-and-roll roadie.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
• Mariah even had to wait a beat for a roadie to get a mic stand on the stage early in her half-hour performance.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2022
• Mack was Scratch's tour roadie, helping set up and break down his turntables each night.
  — Elahe Izadi, chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• The Bruins have enough bodies for the one-game roadie if Bergeron plays and David Backes, a healthy scratch the last three games, draws in on the fourth line.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Jerry had a roadie that looked after him, Steve [Parish].
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2022
• Cleveland lost three straight to finish the roadie, melting down late in each of those contests.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2022
• The dancer in the baby suit was ultimately walked off the stage by a roadie, and never returned.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Nov. 2019
• There’s no band to pay, nor roadies or hotel bills, or any of the other costs of traveling around the country.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2018
• When a roadie handed him a pink Hello Kitty guitar for one song, he wasn’t thrown at all by the prank.
  — Courtney Devores, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2024
• The techs, roadies and others who make shows from bars to stadiums happen, can't work if there are no shows.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 20 Mar. 2020
• White said the band had cables underneath the stage and a roadie under the stage was to keep the cables in order as the band moved from one side of the stage to the other.
  — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 17 Aug. 2017
• Let the roadies don their spandex and perch on their 700c wheels; the common man will e-bike home from work, slugging a tall boy and pulling wheelies off the curb.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2017
• The large teddy bear of a man served as a roadie and personal assistant to the band from their early days to their breakup.
  — Dan Reilly, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2021
• The rolling landscape makes for punchy climbs for the roadies and beautiful scenery for everyone else.
  — Kelton Wright, Time, 6 Mar. 2018
• The Inside, which included photos of the shoot taken by a Van Halen roadie.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2021
• The world’s best roadie helps goofy Wayne and Garth organize a rock concert called Waynestock.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• This old Metallica roadie isn’t searching for a rock star on stage.
  — Andrew Nicla, AZCentral.com, 10 July 2019
• The brothers got their start in music by being roadies on their sister’s tours.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2023
• All that's to say that FC Cincinnati was always going to have a hard time getting something out of this roadie.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2022
• The roadies are lifting Richard Manuel into the air, like three or four guys, getting ready to land him onstage at his piano.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
• Bring a hardtail or short-travel mountain bike, a gravel bike (not a roadie), and an extra set of lungs.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 11 July 2018

Last Updated: 9 Oct 2024