How to Use soloist in a Sentence

soloist

noun
  • Across 11 tracks, the singer will showcase his skill set as a soloist for the first time.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • This led me to choose him to be the soloist for last year’s Christmas concert.
    Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
  • In that piece, he’ll be joined by Gil Shaham, the same soloist heard on the album.
    New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
  • And with her future bright, Nayeon has the goal to continue to grow as a soloist.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2024
  • Awards will also be given to the best male, and best female soloist.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2022
  • On the Global 200, Swift scores her fifth No. 1, the most for a soloist in the survey’s history.
    Eric Frankenberg, Billboard, 2 May 2024
  • But tonight the squirrel is the soloist in the orchestra of suffering.
    Ellen Bass, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • It’s not a flashy concerto, but does present the soloist with challenges.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • The track appears to be the first top 10 win on the tally for BamBam and the second for Seulgi (as a soloist).
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2022
  • A week earlier, the song became the first leader on the lists for a member of BTS as a soloist.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 31 July 2023
  • This week, the tune lands on a pair of Billboard charts she’s never placed on before as a soloist.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • That same punchiness makes Pusha stand out as a soloist.
    Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2022
  • In the first movement, the soloist and the orchestral strings engage in some deft handoffs.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Matsuev — a Gergiev favorite — was to be the concerto soloist in one of the concerts.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
  • Still, about the effects of Ling and guest soloist Sayaka Shoji, there can be no doubt.
    Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Two weeks earlier, the song became the first leader on the lists for a member of BTS as a soloist.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Upon its debut, the song became the first leader on the lists for a member of BTS as a soloist.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Four weeks earlier, the song became the first leader on the lists for a member of BTS as a soloist.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 21 Aug. 2023
  • He was named a soloist in 1956 and a principal dancer four years later.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Jisoo is the last of the members of Blackpink — Lisa, Rosé, and Jennie — to release music as a soloist.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Two of the young soloists debuting at the festival could be stars in the making.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Peck eventually rose to the rank of soloist, while at the same time making his own dances.
    Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Drake is, thus, the first soloist to own the entire top five on the Hot 100 in a single week, as well as the first artist to debut songs at Nos.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2021
  • In the nineteen-thirties, the balance in jazz began to shift, even in big bands, toward the art of the heroic soloist.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Jeri Lynne Johnson is the conductor and Michelle Cann the piano soloist.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 26 May 2021
  • There will be a post-concert discussion with the conductor and the soloist.
    Pioneer Press Staff, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Both of those tunes now jointly rank as the fourth-longest-charting tracks by soloists from the Asian nation.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • At Disney Hall last week, Gerald Clayton was the soloist.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Hilary Hahn, a star in her own right, was the soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
  • Chun Wai Chan, who started in August as a soloist, shows promise.
    New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021

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