How to Use bard in a Sentence

bard

noun

• The bards were the first adapters.
  — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
• Nolan also put rapper Travis Scott in the film as a bard.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 12 May 2026
• For that one, the bard stepped out from behind the piano, flashing his leather pants and a bit of a stoop.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• Essays have described her as the state’s prophet, its bard, its chronicler.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Here was a solo bard asking questions nobody seemed to have answers to.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023
• Said charming thief is Elgin, a bard, who is played by Chris Pine.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2023
• Pine’s character seems to be a bard, shredding on a lute before shredding the air with a sword.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 July 2022
• Now, anyone who's played Dungeons & Dragons knows that bard is a strange class.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• The problem was audiences who weren’t well-versed in paladins, druids and bards mostly steered clear.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Carney is a musician’s filmmaker; a bard for the bards.
  — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
• Fans of great writing knew Roger Angell as a baseball bard without peer.
  — Joseph P. Kahn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2022
• There are different versions of the box as well, such as ones with a wizard, bard, or beholder theme.
  — Sarah Toscano, EW.com, 12 July 2021
• In more recent decades, Daniel has emerged posthumously as a bard of Brooklyn.
  — David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
• Is Jaskier the bard that Dijkstra is talking about in his final scene?
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 17 Dec. 2021
• Travis Scott plays Demodocus, the aedo—that is, the court bard of the Phaeacians.
  — Valentina Colosimo, Vanity Fair, 14 July 2026
• Payne is the bard of dyspeptic middle-aged men, and no one plays such men better than Giamatti.
  — Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• The titular figure, Taliessin, is the bard or minstrel at Camelot.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 3 July 2021
• But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.
  — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
• Take this recent Offbeat Outlaw post in which a rogue yells at his bard for seducing a dragon.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
• As a food writer and a fiction writer, Colwin is a bard of burgeoning adulthood.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• Tales from the Trojan War were passed down orally by bards for centuries until someone put pen to paper.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026
• In 2026 he was cast as a bard in Christopher Nolan’s epic film The Odyssey.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026
• Pizzo, who wrote Rudy and Hoosiers, is the bard of Indiana sports movies — perhaps the bard of all sports movies.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 Jan. 2026
• Often, muses are depicted as the breath of inspiration that moves through the poet, the secret author of the bard’s song.
  — Michelle Taylor, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2020
• In the fifth edition, players can choose characters from nine species, such as dragonborn and half-orc, and a dozen character classes, from bard to warlock.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the Time profile, Nolan also confirmed that rapper Travis Scott will appear in the movie as a bard.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
• Brown makes for a solidly likable lead as Éile, a bard realizing her music, not her gift for violence, might be her true legacy.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
• As a bard of the people, his silence on the situation became too conspicuous to those very people who fought and scraped to pay a lot of money to be in his presence.
  — New York Times, 26 July 2022
• Travis Scott, who plays the character of the bard in the court of Ithaca as Penelope is held near hostage by suitors, also hit the red carpet.
  — Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 July 2026
• But Mothers, the latest novel from a reigning bard of women in crisis, Brenda Lozano, looks to be more thrilling than silly.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025