[
US
/ˈdʒɑpɫɪn/
]
NOUN
- United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917)
- United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)
How To Use Joplin In A Sentence
- When you get there, a jazz group is quietly playing Scott Joplin to an appreciative audience lounging on the grass.
- It doesn't require a great leap of imagination to detect what Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin, Carly Simon and his second wife, Rita Coolidge, saw in him.
- Janis Joplin is the only artist at the top of her game; most of the other groups give lackluster and bland performances of their songs.
- Picture your humble narrator reading a book, grooving to Janis Joplin being played over the speakers, nursing a cup of coffee and digging into a fantastic chicken pesto crepe, and doing his best to resist the potatoes with sour cream.
- Listen now as Joshua Rifkin plays Joplin's " Maple Leaf Rag
- I got on the phone to Inspector Joplin at Scotland Yard.
- Janis Joplin is the only artist at the top of her game; most of the other groups give lackluster and bland performances of their songs.
- It definitely puts his performances of Scott Joplin's rags in a different light!
- When you get there, a jazz group is quietly playing Scott Joplin to an appreciative audience lounging on the grass.
- Joplin was a thin and weedy boy, who seemed to always be wearing a plain white shirt and simple trousers, and the same gray cloak draped over his shoulder.