How to Use disc jockey in a Sentence

disc jockey

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  • This year there will be a new disc jockey and a new menu.
    — Tracy Trobridge, Howard County Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The show’s disc jockey told them that listeners loved the song.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • His dad, a disc jockey, passed away before his son spoke his first words.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Kat Callaghan, a Canadian disc jockey, is now the voice.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Her boyfriend, Joseph Hudson, a popular disc jockey, was shot to death a few miles away on the path to a farm.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Spann was the morning drive disc jockey and the play-by-play guy for high school football games on Friday nights.
    — Bob Carlton | Bcarlton@al.com, al.com, 2 July 2019
  • When a disc jockey suddenly quit, he was asked to take over the 9 a.m.-to-noon broadcast.
    — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Art Laboe, a disc jockey for more than 70 years and one of the first to play rock 'n' roll on the West Coast, died Friday of pneumonia.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 11 Oct. 2022
  • DJ Zum was the last disc jockey to appear before Musiq and Anthony hit the stage.
    — Darlene Aderoju, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Austin found jobs — bartender, disc jockey — but none of them amounted to much of anything.
    — Freep.com, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The event will include hors d'oeuvres, a three-course dinner, a live disc jockey, raffles, silent and live auctions and an open bar.
    — Staff Report, Aurora Beacon-News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Her boyfriend, Joseph Hudson, a popular local disc jockey, was shot to death a few miles away on a path to a farm.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • So, to me, an award show without a host is like a radio station without a disc jockey.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Nite, a former Cleveland disc jockey, played an integral part in the process and lays out all the details.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The sound became a sort of special sauce for disc jockeys citywide, who were playing disco at the time.
    — Katey Ceccarelli, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2019
  • There was the 11-day, on-air vigil maintained by 98 Rock disc jockey Bob Rivers, who vowed not to sign off until the Orioles won.
    — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Police found her boyfriend, Joseph Hudson, a popular local disc jockey, shot to death a few miles away on the path to a farm.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Volunteers swayed to lively tunes spun by a young disc jockey.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 7 Nov. 2020
  • The Dutch disc jockey, mixer and electronic music producer will do a DJ set as the players in the game warm up on the field.
    — San Diego Union Tribune, Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The assault occurred after the disc jockey said the group wanted him to play heavy-metal music.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 31 Dec. 2018
  • The event will include a water slide, a disc jockey and local marine life will be showcased.
    — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 17 July 2019
  • Betty White got her first job on camera in 1949 as the sidekick to a former radio disc jockey, Al Jarvis.
    — WSJ, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The duo also hired a disc jockey named Wes Wallace, who has spun at the club nearly every Friday night since 1991.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 10 Nov. 2022
  • And then on the other side, my grandma was like the second female disc jockey in the world, and then went on to be an amazing singer-songwriter.
    — Tim Stack, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Rachelle French can be heard on the radio these days as a disc jockey, currently working with Q-Rock 100.7 out of Joliet.
    — David Sharos, Aurora Beacon-News, 3 July 2018
  • Protesters and disc jockeys denounced Mr. Watt as a nerd.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • Through the decades, disc jockeys have evolved from background figures to a creative force shaping hip-hop music and culture.
    — Osej Serratos, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • While working as a disc jockey in his early 20s, Engvall was in a nightclub one evening with friends, who urged him to get up on stage and try his hand at stand-up.
    — Nick Clement, Variety, 26 May 2022
  • On Thursday night, about 200 migrants danced in the town square as a disc jockey played reggaeton music from the balcony of the mayor’s office.
    — José De Córdoba and Juan Montes, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
  • Martin starred Lawrence as Martin Payne, a wisecracking radio disc jockey working in the city of Detroit.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2024

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