gig

Example Sentences

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Some are paying gig workers to record themselves cooking dinner and doing laundry.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

After the gig, members of the E Street Band gathered to celebrate at a local hotel bar.

From Salon • May 29, 2026

“Barry loves music as much as anyone I’ve ever known,” says Bette Midler, who hired Manilow as her pianist for the name-making gig she played at New York’s Continental Baths in the early 1970s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

He played his first gig in the Bronx, N.Y., at age 14, and five years later he was hired as a sideman on his first recording session, accompanying bebop vocalist Babs Gonzales in 1949.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

He cocked his head and looked sharp so no one would see a boy on the lam, and would instead see a bluesman on the way to his gig.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia