On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Roadie. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Roadie meaning
- One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician.
- A cyclist who rides on the roads rather than off-road.
- An alcoholic beverage for the ride, for consumption while one is driving.
Using Roadie
- The main meaning on this page is: One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician. | A cyclist who rides on the roads rather than off-road. | An alcoholic beverage for the ride, for consumption while one is driving.
- In the example corpus, roadie often appears in combinations such as: as roadie, roadie and, roadie who.
Context around Roadie
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Roadie
- In this selection, "roadie" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chief, foreigner, immune, friend, duties and amongst stand out and add context to how "roadie" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a foreigner roadie are a and according to roadie dave cy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "roadie" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with roadie
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He got a job as a roadie for the band. (10 words)
Also in 1972, roadie Billy Powell became the keyboardist for the band. (12 words)
How about when he improbably ended up on tour with Pharrell as a roadie? (14 words)
Dymond prescribed a bottle of 100 pills, instructing him to take one pill when he felt a craving for alcohol but not more than three pills per day.sfn By September 1978 Moon was having difficulty playing the drums, according to roadie Dave "Cy" Langston. (45 words)
The band embarked on its first tour of the U.S. in April 1983, joined by Bill Sullivan, a young security guard, as roadie, who approached the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (38 words)
Roberts explained prior to the funeral that the roadie had helped keep Matthews' "feet on the ground". citation The band attempted to break into the United States once more with Equally Cursed and Blessed. (34 words)
How about when he improbably ended up on tour with Pharrell as a roadie? (14 words)
Example sentences (15)
Despite his official post, he continues to be chief ‘roadie’ before and after every concert, driving the van extensively across Europe.
How about when he improbably ended up on tour with Pharrell as a roadie?
Meanwhile some sections, including his Nam June Paik-esque video installations using color TV and a camcorder purchased from a Foreigner roadie, are a minor passage.
Towards the end of her performance, she handed her guitar to her roadie and joined her drummer at his kit for an extended drum duet.
The list ended up including piano, harmonica, vibraphone, Jones on sax, and roadie/friend Mal Evans shoveling gravel in a bucket or something.
Then on banjo was Stan Rusiniak, on keyboard was Marian Elston with guitarist Peter Curtis with arm in sling on ‘roadie’ duties.
Every year we try and find out the one roadie who has seen life from close quarters, and I'm lucky that I'll witness everything this year.
The first card suggested that non-immune roadies will vote out one non-immune roadie amongst themselves.
Also in 1972, roadie Billy Powell became the keyboardist for the band.
At this time, the group enlisted Richard Cole as a roadie.sfn main The next single, " My Generation ", followed in October.
Dymond prescribed a bottle of 100 pills, instructing him to take one pill when he felt a craving for alcohol but not more than three pills per day.sfn By September 1978 Moon was having difficulty playing the drums, according to roadie Dave "Cy" Langston.
He got a job as a roadie for the band.
He set him up as a roadie and backup dancer with the hip hop group Digital Underground in 1990.
Roberts explained prior to the funeral that the roadie had helped keep Matthews' "feet on the ground". citation The band attempted to break into the United States once more with Equally Cursed and Blessed.
The band embarked on its first tour of the U.S. in April 1983, joined by Bill Sullivan, a young security guard, as roadie, who approached the band after a show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Common combinations with roadie
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as roadie 5×
- roadie and 2×
- roadie who 2×