Use "ragtime" in a sentence

1. Edward didn’t take to the piano at first but upon hearing some ragtime, he was hooked and wanted to play

2. The dancing had ceased and the two "artists" were entertaining the select audience with some choice bits of ragtime

3. She looked back at him a second time as he described Rowena's little boy, Benjamin, in a tone with more spirit and music in it than a ragtime band on a Saturday night

4. The one that I most wanted to hear was the Welsh ragtime guitar wizard John James

5. Several of the songs on National Ransom employed the same ragtime rolls and arcane vamps as “Poison Moon” and “Wave a White Flag”—songs written before my first album was released

6. Artists and musicians often said they were trying to express the feelings of the people, but the people by and large wanted nothing to do with modern art or music: They preferred old-time waltzes, or light opera, or – if they were really daring – the catchy ragtime tunes coming out of America’s ‘Tin Pan Alley’

7. The first time we see all five Donahues performing together is at the New York Hippodrome in an overwrought and overlong production of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band

8. The CinemaScope camera captures all seventeen of the dazzling production numbers, including the title song and “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” with Marilyn also scoring well in her solo production number, “Heat Wave