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How to use oboe in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Oboe means a soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family. Example: “The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.”

Examples of oboe by meaning

nounA soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and...

  • 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

More sentences with oboe

  • The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.From the entry overblow
  • I will accompany her on the oboe.From the entry accompany
  • The dulzaina was a double-reed folk instrument, similar to the oboe, which comes from north-central Spain.2010, Frank Koonce, Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World, page 112. From the entry dulzaina
  • 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
  • Another of our friends once walked into the communal showers to find a boy tootling on the pink oboe of another of the same age.2015, Michael Volpe, Noisy at the wrong times, page 178. From the entry pink oboe
  • 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
  • Can you imagine, finally, the opening of Janácek's Sinfonietta, with its richly overtoned, overlapping fanfares, performed not by brass but by a consort of oboes—even very loud ones?2011, Jerrold Levinson, Music, Art, and Metaphysics. From the entry overtone
  • In the first part, the flute plays solo in Trios 2 and 8, both in G major; the oboe has soli in Trios 4 and 10.1999 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
  • Thus, for as long as mankind was unable to finger his pink oboe correctly, the entire galactic orchestra would forever fail in its attempt to play the orgiastic cosmic symphony.2017, S. D. Tucker, Space Oddities: Our Strange Attempts to Explain the Universe. From the entry pink oboe
  • This may be taken, either on a soft small flue stop on the great coupled to swell to oboe, or on the swell to oboe as suggested in the arrangement.1922, Herbert F. Ellingford, The Art Of Transcribing For The Organ, THE H. W. GRAY COMPANY, page 73. From the entry flue stop

Meaning of oboe

  1. noun A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

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Questions about oboe in a sentence

How do you use oboe in a sentence?
Oboe is used as a noun. For example: “The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.”
What is a short sentence with oboe?
“I will accompany her on the oboe.”
What does oboe mean?
Oboe means a soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

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