PERFORMER in a Sentence

Learn PERFORMER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for PERFORMER, such as:
1. The first scene was performed in mime.
2. An analysis of the survey data was performed.
3. The doctor performed the operation yesterday.
4. The Chinese people have performed great historic feats.
5. This operation has never been performed in this country.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PERFORMER
performer
 n.  an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
2  The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
3  He is a harmless enough fellow, Parker by name, a garroter by trade, and a remarkable performer upon the jew's-harp.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4  When these nightly duties were performed there was nothing left to do but to bring in the tin candlestick from the passage, light the candle and blow out the lamp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
5  Both bowed to the inexorable truth: they knew that Zeena never changed her mind, and that in her case a resolve once taken was equivalent to an act performed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  The Baptist and Methodist ministers who performed them had no set prayers but extemporized as the circumstances demanded and seldom stopped before all mourners were in tears and the bereaved feminine relatives screaming with grief.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
8  A little girl performed a skirt dance in the center of the floor.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  One brought his flute and another his violin, while there were some who sang and a number who performed upon the piano with various degrees of taste and agility.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
10  As he performed this office, he whispered his reviving hopes in the ears of the trembling females, who, through dread of encountering the savage countenances of their captors, seldom raised their eyes from the ground.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
11  On his left, the withes which bound her to a pine, performed that office for Alice which her trembling limbs refused, and alone kept her fragile form from sinking.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
12  Still, his too-conscious ears performed their ungrateful duty, as if to warn him of some lurking danger.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
13  The scout, remembering only his own sturdy and iron nature, had probably exacted a task that David, under no circumstances, could have performed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
14  Heyward was far from regretting that his mummeries were to be performed on one who was much too ill to take an interest in their failure or success.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
15  When these acts of affection and respect were performed, the chiefs drew back again to their several places, and silence reigned in the whole encampment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The operatic performer is trained to make an exaggerated gesticulation because of the large auditorium.
2  Any magician knows most people will watch the hand that's moving, the hand the performer is looking at, and not the other hand.
3  He was already a hugely popular performer before the world music brought him fame in Europe and the United States.
4  She was no mean performer on a variety of other instruments.
5  An analysis of the survey data was performed.
6  In Britain, AIDS tests are now performed on all people who offer to become blood donors.
7  These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village.
8  Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
9  The Chinese people have performed great historic feats.
10  This operation has never been performed in this country.
11  We were afraid he would be serious on stage, but in the event he performed beautifully.
12  The first scene was performed in mime.
13  The electricians have performed wonders in recording these long dead voices from old wax onto modern plastic surfaces.
14  The doctor performed the operation yesterday.
15  Doctors performed an emergency operation for appendicitis last night.