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
  • Awards will also be given to the best male, and best female soloist.
    Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Matsuev — a Gergiev favorite — was to be the concerto soloist in one of the concerts.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The song is a great introduction to Nayeon as a soloist, not to mention a bop that will keep us cool all summer long.
    Kristine Kwak, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2022
  • In the 1980s, Birdsong attempted a comeback as a soloist, but the effort petered out.
    Christopher Petkanas, New York Times, 30 June 2023
  • Bowlin was an enchanting soloist, cut from the same cloth as David Oistrakh.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • It is now tied as the highest-charting album in U.S. history by a soloist from the Asian nation.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Pacho Flores, making his debut at The Shell, will be the featured soloist.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Their first full-length album, the record, came five years after the soloists first united for 2018's Boygenius EP.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The concerto — which premiered in 1901 with the composer as the soloist — packs plenty of Russian flair.
    Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • As a soloist, Osbourne has collected eight top 10s, reaching a No. 3 high twice.
    Gary Trust, Billboard, 5 May 2022
  • This season bid farewell to the soloist Georgina Pazcoguin and the principal Harrison Ball, each of whom left with a debut.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 29 May 2023
  • The soloist Georgina Pazcoguin wrote in her 2021 memoir that her thighs were criticized, driving her to get surgery to remove fat from them.
    New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • Often this means greatest-hits repertoire or a celebrity soloist, or both.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2022

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