How to Use beatboxing in a Sentence

beatboxing

noun
  • The ensemble first emerges monochrome from the shadows of the stage to face the audience head-on, accompanied by a mix of church music and beatboxing.
    Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2019
  • The video is set in a living room, as the quintet sings its way through the breakthrough hit, backed by no instruments, but with some additional beatboxing.
    Natalie Maher, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
  • On a recent evening at the Windup Space, as the melodies of live saxophone, beatboxing and the sounds of turntables ebbed and flowed, singer Joy Postell belted out lyrics about love, life and whatever else came to her mind.
    Brittany Britto, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Sabrina Wu opened their Tonight Show stand-up set with some very fun impersonations and even some beatboxing.
    Vulture, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In the 30-second teaser, Puth is seen walking up to his trailer while showing off his impressive beatboxing skills, only to find that his snack stash has been raided.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The show combined the classic music theatre art form with contemporary skills in beatboxing and rapping.
    Sam Boyer, cleveland, 8 July 2021
  • Of course, his appearance wouldn't be complete without his own iconic beatboxing.
    Nina Braca, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Notably, the group is without founding member Avi Kaplan, who has since been replaced by Matt Sallee, responsible for half of the beatboxing for this rendition.
    Natalie Maher, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
  • To English ears, Xhosa speech often comes across a bit like highly-skilled beatboxing, mixing recognizeable speech with what sounds like the clacking of objects striking each other.
    Julie Sedivy, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2012
  • The human soundboard that is Kaila Mullady (known as Kaiser Rözé onstage) enriched the evening’s soundtrack with vocal-cord-defying beatboxing.
    Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Known as pop’s consummate showman, Timberlake will probably play piano, pick up a guitar, break out the beatboxing — but if the large-scale event is anything like his Super Bowl halftime show, the set may be a fragile as a deck of cards.
    Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The heaviness in Markie’s tongue counterbalanced the levity in his musical approach, adding dimension to his beatboxing and weight to his vocal stylings.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • JT's headline-making breakup with his fellow ex-Mousekeeter left all double-denim crusaders heartbroken, but the beatboxing-laced track started feeling like more of a diss after its video came out featuring a Brit look-alike.
    Da'shan Smith, Billboard, 19 May 2017
  • Keyboards, woodwinds, clinking percussion, static, bits of beatboxing and peculiar samples all come and go.
    New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • Olusola's beatboxing is immediately heard in this cover, with his group members voices gradually filling in the pockets.
    Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 24 Nov. 2017
  • As Caliban, Jabari Exum palpably channels the blunt heaviness of resentment; his accomplished, magnetic drumming and beatboxing doesn’t lighten the energy but cunningly redirects it.
    Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Heaton’s innovative beatboxing adds an extra layer of rhythmic enthusiasm.
    Tony Lacy-Thompson, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2017

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