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Recent Examples of croonerThe extremists allegedly plotted to poison Kelly’s food, leaving the Chocolate Factory crooner too paranoid to eat.—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 13 June 2025 The crooner retired from performing in 2021 after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.—Rachel Desantis, People.com, 11 June 2025 The cowboy crooner brings His Large Band to the Uptown Theatre Napa on June 21 (8 p.m., tickets start at $111), the Mountain Winery in Saratoga on June 22 (7:30 p.m., tickets start at $67) and the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa on June 25 (7:30 p.m., tickets start at $93.22).—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 4 June 2025 The 35-year-old crooner suited up on May 5 for the annual event that benefits New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for crooner
Neil Young’s on-off relationship with the BBC and Glastonbury appears to have been resolved, for now, and the singer’s set will be shown live tonight on the national broadcaster.
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Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
28 June 2025
The photos of him and Jack marked the singer's tenth Instagram in-feed post that day.
On warblers and mitochondria At first glance, the standard ways of defining a species seem to work well.
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Elay Shech,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
Yet under two of the most common scientific definitions of species, the biological and phylogenetic species concepts, blue-winged and golden-winged warblers are considered the same species.
Among the pairings were Imago Records’ Terry Ellis with Black Flag belter and actor Henry Rollins and movie critic Gene Shalit with stunt performer Linda Fetters-Howard.
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
11 June 2025
But Rose is a belter, or at least that is how her musical numbers have been traditionally performed.
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Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
This bears pointing out as many legacy bands and even modern bands these days go back and forth between tunings for songs to accommodate their vocalist, which of course is completely fine.
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Quentin Thane Singer,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
Adding former King Crimson bassist/vocalist Boz Burrell and drummer Simon Kirke, the band was complete.
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