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How to use harmonica in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Harmonica means a musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note. Example: “A blue mare approached with the sweet sound of a harmonica.”

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  • A blue mare approached with the sweet sound of a harmonica.2023, Piers Anthony [pseudonym; Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob], “It Better Be You”, in Apoca Lips (A Xanth Novel; 47), New York, N.Y.…. From the entry bluette
  • Weeks later at a staff campout, he arrived with his guitar, harmonica and some interesting microbrews.2009 January 18, Lois Smith Brady, “Beth Leachman and Josh Gadbaw”, in New York Times. From the entry microbrew
  • The tovarishes bring along their harmonicas and balalaikas, their good voices and their good humor.1999, Livia Bitton-Jackson, I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust, Simon Pulse, →ISBN. From the entry tovarish
  • Some were portable, small and mouth-blown like the “blow accordion,” harmonica, aeolina, and symphonion.1992, Toni Charuhas Meekins, “The Accordion”, in Ronald Flynn, Edwin Davison, Edward Chavez, editors, The Golden Age of the Accordion…. From the entry aeolina
  • The misplaced telephone receiver suggests they may have left a harmonica bug.1985, Vernon Tom Hyman, Giant Killer, page 78. From the entry harmonica bug
  • The author drew another pryanik in the form of an expanded Tula harmonica, in the far corner of the windowsill.2020, Ekaterina Akishina, Nadezhda Sevryukova, “Decorative Effect in the Solution of Children's Drawings on Historical Topics”, in Utopía…. From the entry pryanik
  • There were single bass and double bass harmonicas, pipe harmonicas, chord harmonicas, horn harmonicas, chromatics, tenors, tremolos, polyphonias.2013, Janet Anderson, Far Away Places, page 103. From the entry polyphonia
  • Chicago was home to the reinvention of the harmonica from tiny dime store toy to amplified and distorted Mississippi sax.2002, Art Tipaldi, Children of the Blues, P.67. From the entry reinvention
  • The reason that the harmonica sometimes is called a tin sandwich is that you hold it just like a sandwich.2001, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Harmonica, By William Melton, Randy Weinstein, P.50. From the entry tin sandwich
  • Glass harmonicas are basically of two types.2000, Thomas D. Rossing, “Glass Musical Instruments”, in Science of Percussion Instruments (Series in Popular Science; 3), Singapore…. From the entry glass harp
  • A further wave of fluorescent balloons gently deflated, exhaling into miniature harmonicas to breathe an eerie music of the spheres.1996 October 17, Judith Palmer, “Culture: EVENT The Incident ICA, London”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 17 Jan 2016. From the entry music of the spheres
  • If we have our harmonica with a single note at any remote activation place, we can trigger the infinity transmitter on.1976, United States. National Commission for the Review of Federal and State Laws Relating to Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance…. From the entry infinity transmitter
  • The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector.1975, Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No place to hide. From the entry antibug
  • While these modifications make the harmonica overbend more easily, overbending is often possible on stock diatonic harmonica, especially on an airtight design.2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Music Sound. From the entry overbend
  • It is, of course, tough to find a bug that isn't operating, which is at the heart of the harmonica bug principle.1982, Sonny Kleinfield, The Biggest Company on Earth: A Profile of AT & T, page 240. From the entry harmonica bug
  • Correct position simply means that when i sing or play my harmonica to save my voice, i need to find the correct chord that goes with the harmonica or voicing.2009, Lord De Provence [pseudonym?], How to Win the Eurovision Song Contest, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN. From the entry Einsteiny

Meaning of harmonica

  1. noun A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note.
  2. noun A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
  3. noun A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

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Questions about harmonica in a sentence

How do you use harmonica in a sentence?
Harmonica is used as a noun. For example: “A blue mare approached with the sweet sound of a harmonica.”
What is a short sentence with harmonica?
“Glass harmonicas are basically of two types.”
What does harmonica mean?
Harmonica means a musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note.

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