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• I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.From the entry camp
• The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.From the entry overblow
• The clarinet played a long E-flat.From the entry e-flat
• The patron saint of the clarinet, far as I'm concerned—fit for the angel choir.2012, Claire Germain Nail, Saint Sullivan's Daughter, page 262. From the entry licorice stick
• Sniffers of fuzzy-tipped drumsticks, owners of spit-caked clarinets, and donners of fringy polyester uniforms.2011, Sean Beaudoin, You Killed Wesley Payne, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 362. From the entry donner
• McDuffie summoned a subtle glow, which was well matched by flute and clarinet soloists.2007 January 30, Steve Smith, “A Debut and a Fervent Violinist”, in New York Times. From the entry canzonetta
• The part is written for clarinet in A, with soli in Trios 6, 9 and 12.1999 December, Kurt Birsak, “Salzburg, Haydn, and the Clarinet”, in The Clarinet, volume 27, number 1, archived from the original on 17…. From the entry soli
• In fact the flugel, though related to the trumpet, reveals its mellow gentleness here, and the clarinet its strident edge.2010 November 15, “BBCNOW/Roth at St David’s Hall, Cardiff”, in The Times. From the entry flugel
• It was military bandsmen, their uniform coats unbuttoned, who supplied the merry tune, from a clarinet, a tuba, a fife.2005, E. L. Doctorow, The March, New York: Random House, Part One, p. 28. From the entry bandsman
• Once, he delightedly exclaims, "I've got a date with a lovely lady tonight, and her name is clarinet!"2004, Heather Hendershot, editor, Nickelodeon Nation, pages 202–203. From the entry pseudoheterosexual
• Among the many benchmarks of his career, he developed the first complete choir of in-tune clarinets, ranging from sopranino to octocontrabass.1999, The Clarinet, volume 27, page 13. From the entry octocontrabass
• Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.1990, Francis Bebey, African music: a people's art, page 64. From the entry oboe
• The verses are syllabated over a brisk march-like tune, picked out with first violins, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet and trombone.1973, Julian Budden, The Operas of Verdi, page 118. From the entry syllabate
• Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet?1948, Frederic Ramsey, Jr., “Deep Sea Rider”, in Charles Harvey, editor, Jazz Parody: Anthology of Jazz Fiction. From the entry stick
• A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet—these were the instruments.1906, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Californian’s Tale”, in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, New York…. From the entry breakdown
• The heiress to a cheese fortune has run off with a clarinet player in a swing band, and Hicks is dispatched to bring her home.2025 October 9, Parul Sehgal, “Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New…. From the entry lulu
• The sounds from Barb's clarinet began to take the shape of a melody, played quietly at first, hesitantly, with a misblown note here and there.2013, Michael Craft, Boy Toy, →ISBN. From the entry hesitantly
• The work is scored for an unusual lineup of 15 instruments, including two violas, bass flute, two basset horns, contrabass clarinet, the cimbalon and banjo.2007 July 25, Vivien Schweitzer, “A Minimalist Pied Piper (Imagine, Please, Those Rats)”, in New York Times. From the entry cimbalon
• Naimro’s keyboards could sound like zinging dance-club synthesizers, an accordion, a steel drum or the clarinet used in old Martinican biguine music.2007 August 2, Jon Pareles, “A Wide Range of Sounds, From Antillean to Zouk”, in New York Times. From the entry biguine
• And she has a full, even, unsqueaking tone, especially on the clarinet, an instrument that could use another distinctive voice in jazz.2007 May 11, Ben Ratliff, “A Musical World Traveler Who Likes to Mix Things Up”, in New York Times. From the entry unsqueaking
• This brings us to the clarinet.1999 December, Kurt Birsak, “Salzburg, Haydn, and the Clarinet”, in The Clarinet, volume 27, number 1, archived from the original on 17…. From the entry soli
• Alongside the clarinet of today, idioglot instruments are still played in many European countries, along the Baltic and in the Balkans, as well as Asia, Africa and South America.2008, Eric Hoeprich, The Clarinet, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry idioglot
• The instrumentation of two B flat clarinets, bass clarinet, piano, bass guitar and snare drum brushstrokes in and of itself evokes an antiquated music hall style.1983, Terence J. O'Grady, The Beatles, a Musical Evolution, Macmillan Reference USA. From the entry music hall
• Further north, in rural Lithuania, a folk clarinet has a cylindrical tube closed at the top, with idioglot reed taken in the player's mouth for its entire length.1975, Sibyl Marcuse, A survey of musical instruments, page 729. From the entry idioglot

Meaning of clarinet

1. noun A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).

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How do you use clarinet in a sentence?

Clarinet is used as a noun. For example: “I met my best friend last summer at camp. She lives in Albany and plays the clarinet.”

What is a short sentence with clarinet?

“The clarinet played a long E-flat.”

What does clarinet mean?

Clarinet means a woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).