How to Use troubadour in a Sentence

troubadour

noun

• And Gilmore predicts a return to the studio will be in store for the two troubadours.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2018
• But what makes this 59-year-old troubadour stand out are his best lyrics.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2023
• If the curtain does rise here in L.A. this fall, at least our troubadour — thanks to Barcelona — will not be rusty.
  — James C. Taylor, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2021
• The north-of-the-border troubadour has been a long time gone; his Wednesday date is part of his first US tour in eight years.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• The three troubadours first famously shared the stage at the first Farm Aid benefit concert in 1985.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
• That Grohl isn't thought of as an artist who reinvents himself or a troubadour isn't a knock on him.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• Java Joe’s, the then-budding teen troubadour was hired as a barista.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• None of those aforementioned songs climbed as high as the top 3 on the Hot 100, though; the next time this club of troubadours meets up for brunch, Capaldi is buying.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2019
• These two true troubadours may be among the best songwriters in music, regardless of genre.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Marlon has the charisma of an old school rock front man and the soulful lyrics of a Seventies troubadour.
  — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
• The character of Jeff is a failed L.A. songwriter, a troubadour that didn’t make it.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• There were plenty of singer-songwriters, but no two troubadours sounded alike.
  — Terence Cawley, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2019
• The red-bearded troubadour lives on a farm in rural Virginia.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
• But the history of Laurel Canyon dates back much farther than aging troubadours.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
• This isn’t a romantic tale of a restless troubadour riding the rails, though.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 Sep. 2022
• Apple first rose to fame as a troubadour of sad songs gilded with rage, her voice burning with emotion.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2020
• Even though 91-year-old troubadour Ramblin’ Jack Elliott didn’t feel like getting out of bed this morning, there was a gig to play.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2022
• Seals did not travel the standard route to strumming troubadour.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2022
• The passing of the Texas troubadour in late October brought tributes from across musical genres, but the best is the two-hour livestream from Snider.
  — Staff Reports Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 Dec. 2020
• Grimes and his wife are devotees of Canadian prairie troubadour Colter Wall.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2022
• But this time, the candidate wasn’t praising the Garden State troubadour.
  — Diane Winston, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
• As for what this 20th-century troubadour would sing, well, that was Dylan’s job.
  — Adam Langer, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
• What results may remind some of a fellow Irish troubadour named Van.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• The city created a park with a bronze sculpture of a troubadour anchoring a street corner.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
• For now, the 87-year-old Texas troubadour prefers to share his feelings through music and on stage, which was taken from him in March after the pandemic struck the country.
  — Elaine Aradillas, PEOPLE.com, 17 Sep. 2020
• It’s a pounding pop number, and a major shift from Sheeran’s troubadour style.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 18 June 2021
• The idea for a city troubadour came from John Q. Gale, the assistant majority leader of the council.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• At 32, the ruddy-cheeked troubadour turned chart-topping star has reached a reflective phase in his career.
  — Brian McCollum, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• A few feet away stands a troubadour with his mandolin, both sculpted using flowers.
  — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• Over the last three decades, Beck has been an acoustic troubadour, an absurdist rapper and a journeyman rock star, truly occupying a category of his own in the music industry.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024