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• To me, the bassoon is the greatest of the double reeds.From the entry double reed
• She wove a beautiful basket out of reeds.From the entry wove
• Playing wind instruments involves tonguing on the reed or mouthpiece.From the entry tongue
• When ice skating, be sure to stay away from reeds: there are always thin patches of ice there, and you could fall through.From the entry patch
• She staggered through the reeds to the island ahead and flattened on the ground.2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 352. From the entry tuckered out
• Some mid-priced models respond faborably to overbending, but they work much better with reed adjustment.2009, Winslow Yerxa, Harmonica For Dummies, page 190. From the entry overbend
• From reeds moorhens called to each other, the sounds light metallic “queeks.”2007, Samuel F. Pickering, Edinburgh Days: Or, Doing what I Want to Do, page 169. From the entry queek
• Sway, flowers, leaning like reeds in a wave, More motionable than insects.2006, Theodore Roethke, David Wagoner, Straw for the Fire. From the entry motionable
• They bent the poles over and covered them with cattail reeds or bark.2003, Janet Riehecky, The Wampanoag: The People of the First Light, page 13. From the entry wetu
• Nor was the peasantry a broken reed in terms of demand for manufactured products.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 543. From the entry broken reed
• Patch ice clung to reeds and willow branches along the banks.1995, Robert Peters, For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II, page 3. From the entry patch ice
• Slower as the river became more intimate; reeds at the edge almost within touching distance.1992, Mairi Hedderwick, Highland Journey: A Sketching Tour of Scotland: Retracing the Steps of Victorian Artist John T. Reid, Edinburgh…. From the entry stalkily
• REED: To Jeanette, a daughter, Sanquette Michelle, 7 lbs. 11 ozs., July 18.1991 July 28, “[[Milestones] Births] Huey P. Long Memorial”, in Alexandria Daily Town Talk, Alexandria, La., →OCLC, page C-11, column 3. From the entry sanquette
• Jeffrey who brought the art of low pressure reed voicing to a very high standard.1976, Laurence Elvin, Forster and Andrews: Their Barrel, Chamber and Small Church Organs, page 102. From the entry reedwork
• Reed read the label and gazed afresh on to the plain of dust.1969, Clive Barry, Fly Jamskoni, London: Faber and Faber […], →ISBN, page 54. From the entry skerrick
• Reed, you’ve committed nothing but a brash act of bad taste by bypassing the standard channels.1960 April, George O. Smith, “The Troublemakers”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 18, number 4, page 156. From the entry brash
• Or, a crane in her vigilance, azure, standing in reeds proper.1943, National Americana Society, Americana Illustrated, page 133. From the entry in vigilance
• Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402. From the entry outland
• Willet sent the canoe through the open water between the tall reeds.1916, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 1, in The Hunters of the Hills. From the entry open water
• "It is a slender reed," Gilbert said, "for so mighty an issue to rest upon."1908, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 35, in The Great Secret. From the entry slender reed
• The single reed iterations were often idioglots because of the simple structural design required to produce such a sound generator.2016, Michael J. Pagliaro, Basic Elements of Music, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry idioglot
• Surrounded by tall grass the boma is a three-sided structure of sticks and reeds standing at the edge of Marula Puku.1993, Cordelia Dykes Owens, The Eye of the Elephant, Houghton Mifflin Books, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry boma
• You had to have a heddle hook and a reed hook, and that's about all you really needed.1990, Mary H. Blewett, The Last Generation: Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960, page 88. From the entry heddle hook
• Reed was thinking, there had to be something more.1985, Stan Lee [i.e., Stanley R. Lee], “The Conspirators”, in Dunn’s Conundrum, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 313. From the entry centimillion
• Reed could concentrate and he set goals all the time, but he didn’t have a cent, much less a centimillion.1985, Stan Lee [i.e., Stanley R. Lee], “The Conspirators”, in Dunn’s Conundrum, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 313. From the entry centimillion
• To take a ride, one sucked Elephant juice through the reed until the water level disappeared beneath the husk.1967, Louis E. Lomax, Thailand: The War that Is, the War that Will Be, Random House, page 142. From the entry elephant juice
• It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass.1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry muzak
• The traditional fare around Dragon Boat Festival time is zongzi, pyramids of glutinous rice wrapped in reed leaves.1953, Department for International Work, All-China Democratic Women's Federation, editor, Women of China, Beijing: Foreign Languages…. From the entry zongzi
• The heddles and heddle frames, Fig. 3, and the reed may be purchased from dealers in craftwork supplies.1948 January, “Make Weaving Your Hobby”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 89, number 1, page 190. From the entry heddle
• As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.1902, Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor. From the entry quonk
• Aeolinas and aeolodicons were similar to the more popular physharmonica, a four-octave keyboard instrument with free reeds invented by Anton Haeckl of Vienna.2016, Myles W. Jackson, “Charles Wheatstone: Musical Instrument Making, Natural Philosophy, and Acoustics in Early Nineteenth-Century…. From the entry aeolina
• Free reed instruments such as this shō and its Chinese forebear, the sheng, have been known in East and Southeast Asia since antiquity.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art…. From the entry shō
• Reeds shoot out of the water, rustling when the fish swim through them, and river-washed stones are sprinkled in a bed of sand.2013, P.J. Hoover, Solstice, →ISBN, page 355. From the entry down
• “That is a slender reed for Senator Rubio to hang this on,” said Representative Alcee Hastings, Democrat of Florida, referring to the two court cases.2013 September 23, Lizette Alvarez, “Rubio Withdraws Support for Gay Black Judge’s Nomination to the Federal Bench”, in New York Times…. From the entry slender reed
• Reed was the preternaturally boyish spear carrier for the religious right, the brash Evangelical who transformed the Christian Coalition into a populist power center.2006 July 23, James Carney, “The Rise and Fall of Ralph Reed”, in Time, retrieved 19 Mar 2014. From the entry spear carrier
• After particularly good seasons, flocks "erupt" from their breeding grounds and appear in reed beds where they have not been seen for years, if ever.1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 242. From the entry erupt
• These simple instruments (idioglots) still found in Syria, Crete, Turkmenistan amongst others are also used by children who have a good supply of reeds nearby.1988, Eric Montbel, Le Roseau et la musique, page 78. From the entry idioglot
• Lonchuras nest in reeds or grass.1984, Ken Simpson, Nicolas Day, The Birds of Australia: A Book of Identification (page 335). From the entry lonchura
• The large swamps of the Nile delta with their thickets of lotus, papyros and reed, were favourite hunting grounds in Ancient Egypt.1980, Erich Hobusch, Fair Game: A History of Hunting, Shooting, and Animal Conservation, Arco Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 45. From the entry papyros
• He it was who had bespangled the soils with russet leaves and reeds and who had breathed the breath of life into beings.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20. From the entry bespangle

Meaning of reed

1. noun Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
2. noun The hollow stem of these plants.
3. noun Part of an aerophone musical instrument, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal, which vibrates to produce sound when air passes through it.

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How do you use reed in a sentence?

Reed is used as a noun and verb. For example: “To me, the bassoon is the greatest of the double reeds.”

What is a short sentence with reed?

“Lonchuras nest in reeds or grass.”

What does reed mean?

Reed means any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.