How to use cello in a sentence

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• Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.From the entry musician
• The cello has a two-piece back with a beautiful narrow flame.From the entry flame
• If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive.From the entry motive
• The first four desks of cellos play separate parts, making a lush, Impressionist harmony.From the entry desk
• Hold the cello bow with the hand in a pronate position over the frog.From the entry pronate
• So you're learning the cello. Great. Do I look like someone who cares?From the entry does someone look like
• This cello has a terrible wolf tone on the D string.From the entry wolf tone
• You will develop calluses if you play the cello.From the entry develop
• She likes the intrata from Bach's fifth 'cello suite.From the entry intrata
• I have a knockabout cello for non-concert gigs.From the entry knockabout
• The string quartet, one of the most popular groupings in chamber music, is composed entirely of violins: two violins proper, one viola, and one cello.From the entry violin
• Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?From the entry rubbish
• It was concertized folk music, complete with cello, but it had spirit.2007 May 12, Jon Pareles, “A New Style for Portugal’s Old Fado, but the Songs Are Still Full of Emotion”, in New York Times. From the entry concertize
• The ruminative 'cello uttered two phrases of its own and then began a dialogue with the viola.1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander. From the entry ruminative
• As with a solo cello, a single-vineyard champagne highlights the virtuosity of the performer (whether it's the producer or the site).2017, Peter Liem, Kate Leahy, “The Primacy of Place”, in Champagne: The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the…. From the entry champagne
• Sutter and her borrowed cello sang a little raucously over it, like Carly Simon at the end of the night.2007 February 15, Anne Midgette, “A New Work for Cello, Played Upon a Veteran”, in New York Times. From the entry breathiness
• And the cello: it had been an indifferent performance.1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, Part 2, page 252. From the entry indifferent
• The composer appears to have envisaged players of varying degree of ability, and the first ‛cello gets the cream.1930, The Musical Times, issue 71, page 126, column 2. From the entry 'cello
• Bill Hones, a member of the Joint Service Orchestra, rehearsing on a carbon-fiber cello for the preinaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.2009 January 19, Chris Museler, “Cold Case: The Sound of Carbon for Yo-Yo Ma?”, in New York Times. From the entry preinaugural
• So I've been forced to have people call me Andrea, which sounds like a girl who takes ballet and is learning to play the cello.2003, Jack Weyland, Everyone Gets Married in the End, Cedar Fort,, →ISBN, page 157. From the entry Andrea
• The finale begins with one of Haydn's spritziest tunes, parsimoniously unharmonized, with only a single cello rocking back and forth on the keynote G.1995, Michael Steinberg, The Symphony: A Listener's Guide, page 211. From the entry spritzy
• Listen to him play a Bach cello suite and you'll grasp its proportionate beauty and the conviction that music transcends all worldy concerns.1992 November 27, Ted Shen, “Yo-Yo Ma”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry worldy
• In the same collection there appeared a quatuor with four melodic instruments: flute, oboe, violin, and cello, besides the fondamento or figured bass.1949, Ruth Halle Rowen, Early chamber music, page 79. From the entry fondamento
• Among the ensemble’s strange, outmoded, “original” instruments — the feral horns, sour violins, wooden flutes, cellos without endpins — she seemed right at home, despite her Broadway provenance.2007 July 8, Jesse Green, “Let Her Entertain You. Please!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2020. From the entry feral
• Indeed, the calcedon seems principally intended as a reinforcement to the cello: where the cello and keyboard parts differ from one another, the calcedon goes with the bowed instrument.1995, Daniel R. Melamed, “Performance questions in Bach's Trauerode”, in Bach Studies 2, page 139. From the entry calcedon

Meaning of cello

1. noun A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
2. noun Cellophane.

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How do you use cello in a sentence?

Cello is used as a noun. For example: “Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.”

What is a short sentence with cello?

“I started out on the cello.”

What does cello mean?

Cello means a large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.