How to Use perform in a Sentence

perform

verb

• The class performed the play for the school.
• The band will be performing on the main stage.
• The band will perform songs from their new album.
• The magician performed some amazing tricks.
• She's a wonderful singer who loves to perform before a live audience.
• The doctor had to perform surgery immediately.
• The gymnasts performed their routines perfectly.
• You are required to perform 50 hours of community service.
• Clark, Trooper and Dufresne will take the stage to perform.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 May 2023
• Bench players tend to perform much worse on the road than in front of their home crowd.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
• In August, the band performed for the first time at halftime of the school’s home football game.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• And the band has been performing it a lot — both over the decades and recently.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2024
• This would have marked the first time Mullen performed in concert with his band mates since 2019.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Mar. 2024
• Only one of the 23 songs performed over the show’s two hours and 15 minutes didn’t make any use of the horn section at all.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 15 July 2023
• Blackpink was the first K-pop group to perform there, back in 2019, which was hailed as a major feat at the time.
  — Tiffany Ap, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• To me, the worst performing one on this challenge was Jaymes Mansfield, and Jaymes was not in the bottom.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• With this news, Karate will head back out on the road to perform music from their new album and old LPs alike.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 July 2024
• This also will be the first time a gospel group will perform for a coronation.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• The singer took to Twitter to let her fans know that she was put on vocal rest, and was unable to perform that night.
  — Country Living Staff, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
• Will the Jaguars be able to perform under the national spotlight?
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2023
• To me, that’s so much bigger than just going out and performing a song.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 May 2023
• Hydrafacials are offered in most cities in the US, but all spas have to be licensed to perform them.
  — Danielle Jackson, Women's Health, 18 Aug. 2023
• Officers and paramedics performed CPR, but Cao died at the scene, police said.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
• Tech is a volatile industry, and no one can predict how a stock will perform in the future.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Post Malone is set to perform on New Year's Eve weekend.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Swift is still set to perform in Buenos Aires Saturday.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
• That’s the first thing most artists who performed at the 1983 US Festival remember.
  — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
• In the film, Tom Cruise performed a stunt that has been billed as the most death-defying one of his acting career thus far.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
• Some analysts and Chinese fans have speculated whether Ye may have gotten a pass to perform in Hainan because of his brief time living in China as a child.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
• While Ondra performed her scenes, Barry stood off-camera, delivering the lines in sync with the action, marking an inventive solution in the early days of sound cinema.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024