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.
• The higher the jump, the shorter the time the diver has to perform the roll back and kick.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 22 May 2025
• The clip plays, and the Foley artists perform in synch with the picture.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Clark, Trooper and Dufresne will take the stage to perform.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 May 2023
• To perform a squat pulse, start with your feet hip-width apart.
  — Jordan Smith, SELF, 14 Apr. 2025
• The set where the artists perform will feature the iconic Swiss peaks.
  — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 9 May 2025
• 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
• The concert marks the third time in almost 20 years that the IPO will perform in Cleveland.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 26 Oct. 2022
• This would have marked the first time Mullen performed in concert with his band mates since 2019.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Mar. 2024
• Or, indeed, of the lyrics of the song performed by — checks notes — Vikina and Richaelio.
  — Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 15 June 2025
• 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
• Most notably, Pearl Jam fought to perform for fans on their own terms.
  — Krista Brown, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2022
• Here's what to know about who performed during the Grammy Awards.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Chance the Rapper, born and raised in Chicago and slated to perform at night, co-sponsored the event.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2022
• The travel, and it’s a tremendous amount of pressure to perform on that level.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 June 2022
• Those kinds of tasks are performed by someone who comes to the customer’s driveway.
  — Bill Koenig, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• Standing on one leg and holding for 20 seconds is an example of a balance exercise that anyone can perform.
  — Matt Parrott, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2025