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How to use playlist in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Playlist means a list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station. Example: “She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.”

Examples of playlist by meaning

nounA list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.

  • When you collect a group of MIDIs into an album, you can play them much like a CD, with repeat mode, random mode, and a programmed playlist.1998, Judi N. Fernandez, WAVs, MIDIs & RealAudio: Enjoying Sound on Your Computer
  • I still went to those playlists for solace.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN
  • When users would select the most immediately visible “dinner playlist” or ”workout mix,” they might have unknowingly clicked through to a list owned and operated by a major label.2025, Liz Pelly, Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria Books, →ISBN

verbTo include (a track) on a playlist.

  • She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.
  • Suddenly they got a single playlisted at Radio 1 and the album went gold.2009, John Niven, Kill Your Friends, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 7
  • And it's the story of how those problems then played out over the span of many years, as music became personalized, playlisted, autoplayed, and algorithmic.2025, Liz Pelly, “Introduction”, in Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, 1st edition, New York: Atria...

More sentences with playlist

  • I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.From the entry shuffle
  • Sue picked a playlist of eighties music for the dinner to remind her wife of that night they met all those years ago.From the entry eighties
  • Maurice Moss: Compiling a playlist for a role-playing game I'm hosting.2010 June 25, Richard Ayoade (actor), Graham Linehan (writer, director), “Jen The Fredo”, IT Crowd, series 4, episode 1, FremantleMedia. From the entry atmos
  • The distribution is the same, it takes in sales charts and radio playlists and is agreed by the membership pigopolists.2009 July 25, victor, “Re: Cafe owners refuse to pay for the right to use music instore”, in nz.general (Usenet). From the entry pigopolist
  • The station now features a bland, jockless eighties-heavy playlist.2006, Chicago, volume 55, numbers 10-12, page 30. From the entry jockless
  • In a typical week, 10 to 15 songs may be up for consideration as “adds” of new songs for the station's playlist.2006, David Baskerville, Music Business Handbook and Career Guide, page 370. From the entry add
  • In honor of Russell's bust, we decided to dig up 20 codeine-laced tracks that he probably keeps on his iPod's playlist if he's really into sippin' sizzurp.2010 July 6, “Sippin' On Some Sizzurp: 20 Songs That Are (Probably) On Sippin' On Some Sizzurp: 20 Songs That Are (Probably) On JaMarcus…. From the entry sizzurp

Meaning of playlist

  1. noun A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
  2. noun A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.
  3. noun A list of songs, prepared for a band or musical artist, to be performed during a concert; a setlist.

Full definition of playlist

Questions about playlist in a sentence

How do you use playlist in a sentence?
Playlist is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.”
What is a short sentence with playlist?
“I still went to those playlists for solace.”
What does playlist mean?
Playlist means a list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playlist (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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