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How to use saxophonist in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Saxophonist means a person who owns, plays or practices with the saxophone. Example: “He's a decent saxophonist, but probably not good enough to make a career of it.”

Examples of saxophonist by meaning

nounA person who owns, plays or practices with the saxophone.

  • They enjoyed music from a live saxophonist during the journey before visiting Braintree Town Hall for refreshments and Christmas cake.2021 December 29, “Network News: Music train for dementia sufferers”, in RAIL, number 947, page 19

More sentences with saxophonist

  • He's a decent saxophonist, but probably not good enough to make a career of it.From the entry decent
  • Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.From the entry extraordinaire
  • Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists.2017 March 17, “Thousands Flood Fifth Avenue for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade”, in NBC New York. From the entry cadet grey
  • Mahanthappa, an alto saxophonist, combines razorlike articulation with a probing style.2008 March 7, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry razorlike
  • The alto saxophonist Pete Robbins favors a species of fusionesque post-bop that’s complex but welcoming, and ultimately light on its feet.2008 April 27, Nate Chinen, “Trippy Rock, Relaxed Jazz and Other Delights”, in New York Times. From the entry fusionesque
  • The alto saxophonist Greg Osby has a brittle and dartlike style, well suited to exploratory post-bop or slippery free-funk.2007 January 26, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry dartlike
  • 'He could be a mean drunk,' said saxophonist Artie Drelinger.2002, Frederick J. Spencer, Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats. From the entry stoned
  • Saxophonist Pete Wareham, his friend and collaborator in Polar Bear and the critically feted groups Acoustic Ladyland and Fulborn Teversham, soon punctures that idea.2007 April 6, Mike Barnes, “Is this the hardest-working man in music?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023. From the entry fete
  • Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter, collaborates here with Hafez Modirzadeh, an Iranian-American saxophonist, playing an improvised music that incorporates traditional elements of Iraqi maqam and Persian dastgah.2009 June 19, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry dastgah

Meaning of saxophonist

  1. noun A person who owns, plays or practices with the saxophone.

Full definition of saxophonist

Questions about saxophonist in a sentence

How do you use saxophonist in a sentence?
Saxophonist is used as a noun. For example: “He's a decent saxophonist, but probably not good enough to make a career of it.”
What is a short sentence with saxophonist?
“Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.”
What does saxophonist mean?
Saxophonist means a person who owns, plays or practices with the saxophone.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saxophonist (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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