How to Use busker in a Sentence

busker

noun
  • In this corner of Philly, Puryear is much more than a busker.
    Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • Bryan, then, jumped out of the car and started dancing in the street with the Cleveland busker.
    Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 20 July 2017
  • A box of Kleenex was passed like a busker’s hat at a variety show.
    Catherine Porter Photographs and Video By Leslye Davis, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • The sound of a busker playing a trumpet can carry for blocks.
    Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2020
  • These buskers range in musical style from rock and blues to folk and R&B and even jazz and big band.
    AL.com, 26 May 2017
  • Other buskers have since challenged Puryear for the same spot.
    Stephanie Farr, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • Angelique said Shader, who goes by Sam, plays the ukulele and spent years on the road working as a busker.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 4 June 2020
  • Why go through all the trouble to be an Undergound busker?
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Guests will enter the gala at Bowery Street, where a busker and paparazzi will greet them in the parking lot.
    Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But others say street artists with their spray cans breathe life into a place the way a busker does with a guitar.
    Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Ahead of the rose ceremony, Michelle and Rick, 32, strolled around the block and stopped to dance by a busker playing piano.
    Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Al convinces them to give up thievery and become buskers, sort of a fez-wearing boy band.
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
  • Music fills the bars, but also the streets, where buskers entertain tourists and lunch-hour diners.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Not long ago, a busker with a mic and a giant white tuba was booming a tune near the Dupont Circle Metro station.
    Diana Michele Yap, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In what might be the world’s first, London has introduced a way for passers-by to tip buskers with cashless payments.
    Natasha Bach, Fortune, 29 May 2018
  • Cherry played every character: a man readying for a date, a butcher on the street, a truck driver, and a busker.
    Kelsey McKinney, GQ, 8 Oct. 2017
  • And, danced to buskers — Jeremy busted out an impressive worm.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Eight of the buskers, including Gilday, were competing for the 2018 People’s Choice Award.
    Deborah Sullivan Brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • On the tidy Pearl Street Mall, crowds were gathered by burbling fountains to watch buskers, jugglers and flame-swallowers.
    Tony Perrottet, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2016
  • Hollywood Boulevard will be reopened to tourists and buskers.
    Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The global hit is a bouncy, fun song, but it was born out of Watson's frustration while being a busker in her home of Australia.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Instead, the band was initially disguised along with Fallon as run-of-the-mill subway buskers rocking out for spare change.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Boutiques, restaurants, and buskers give the marketplace a vital (and hectic) feel.
    Claire Dederer, ELLE Decor, 27 May 2011
  • Look for mimes, buskers and street performers throughout the festival.
    Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
  • Boston busker is living his dream Randall, 39, has been playing bagpipes for around 15 years and busking for more than a decade.
    Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • In one, an elderly man hears buskers on the metro playing an old military march and recalls a wartime love affair.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • In these novels, the protagonists start at the bottom of the pyramid as stock boys, bootblacks, and immigrant buskers.
    Alissa Quart, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Bartenders serve stiff drinks to the eclectic clientele, who shuffle tables and chairs around at will, and there is often a samba circle or a busker.
    Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The bruin busker that delights locals and tourists alike on the streets of Boston has sustained an injury that has kept him from accepting at least one gig.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2018
  • There are no cops patrolling on foot, no buskers with guitars and collection tins, no homeless men seeking spare change for bus fare.
    Staff, Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2020

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