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How to use bard in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Bard means a professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. Example: “Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.”

Examples of bard by meaning

nounA professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor...

  • AN INSTRUMENT, THE BARD CARRIES.2023, Rundisc, Chants of Sennaar, Focus Entertainment, via Nintendo Switch, level/area: Gardens

nounA poet.

  • Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.

nounA class of character that typically focuses on charisma, magic and supporting other players; a fantasy fiction...

  • I saw a bard work a bit of magic once.2015 August 18, Tim Pratt, Pathfinder Tales: Reign of Stars, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 116
  • "Having a bard would be even less helpful than having a second wizard," John interjects.2024 January 9, Kristy Boyce, Dungeons and Drama, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 66

More sentences with bard

  • Both of my good Durges were College of Swords bards because I liked this class so much.2023 December 23, oblakinia, Reddit. From the entry Durge
  • By the bard Philammon, she gave birth to an even greater musician, her son Thamyris.2013, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, page 34. From the entry Argiope
  • A geas is a restriction or compulsion laid upon a person by a druid or a bard.2003, Arthur Rowan, The Lore of the Bard: A Guide to the Celtic and Druid Mysteries, Llewellyn Worldwide, page 126. From the entry geas
  • Bard had prepared a feast for him, because a sacrifice was being made to the disir.1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, translated by Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 67. From the entry dis
  • In oral cultures, bards carried epics in their heads; griots could reel off centuries of genealogy on demand.2025 October 26, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Age of De-Skilling”, in The Atlantic. From the entry griot
  • Since its invention, probably in sixteenth-century Senegal, the kora has been used by professional bards called jalis, or griots.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art…. From the entry kora
  • There, a girl or a boy could be a warlord or a farmer, a bard or a sad sack needing protection.2013 September 9, Jennifer Sky, “My Life as a Warrior Princess”, in The New York Times. From the entry Xenaverse
  • Modern South African film directors and performers as bards, izimbongi or storytellers have only residues of existing 'traditional societies' to bring to the surface.2006, Keyan G[ray] Tomaselli, “Orality in African Cinema: Reasoning, Representation and Relativism”, in Encountering Modernity: Twentieth…. From the entry izimbongi
  • He also had a tail like an oxen tail only with a razor sharp bard that he used in conflict to stab or slice his victims.2013, Michael Wayne Snider, Memoirs of a Dragon Slayer - Page 22. From the entry oxen
  • At any rate, the song I raise is mindful of those sterner lays when a stanch bard could gladly come to you nor snivel like a bum.1936 February 17, “This Won’t Get the Prize”, in The Bangor Daily News, volume XLVII, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry usedst to
  • Most of the chazzanim, from the tenth down to the fourteenth centuries, were like the "bards," the Arabic "singers" (Shuar), the French Trobadors, and the German Minnesinger, poet-musicians.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 125. From the entry trobador

Meaning of bard

  1. noun A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
  2. noun A poet.
  3. noun A class of character that typically focuses on charisma, magic and supporting other players; a fantasy fiction character inspired by this archetype.

Full definition of bard

Questions about bard in a sentence

How do you use bard in a sentence?
Bard is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Shakespeare is known as the bard of Avon.”
What is a short sentence with bard?
“AN INSTRUMENT, THE BARD CARRIES.”
What does bard mean?
Bard means a professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bard (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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