bandstand

Example Sentences

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“In Claude Collier,” she rhapsodizes, “I saw my very youth, a fateful green garden, parades on the Avenue, an orchestra on a bandstand, my youth in New Orleans.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

I just assume he couldn't recollect or revel in discussions about Count Basie and Duke Ellington and sitting on the bandstand and blowing trumpet with many other people, especially in Hollywood.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2025

Jon McClure, the lead singer from the Sheffield band Reverend and the Makers, recently purchased "an old-fashioned English bandstand guitar" from the new shop.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025

The civil rights movement was alive and well, adding to the urgency that these musicians were executing on the bandstand.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

He searched between all of his holographic projectors mounted in the catwalks above the stage, and under auditorium seats, and in the bandstand.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles