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• The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.From the entry visual
• Will you please stop playing that wretched trombone!From the entry wretched
• Trumpet is a transposing instrument while trombone is not.From the entry transposing
• Amanda is killing it on the trombone!From the entry kill it
• However, this fad quickly faded when people realized this technology (sad trombone: womp, womp) . . . well, it didn't work.2017, Joe Clement, Matt Miles, Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber, page 227. From the entry womp womp
• Moreover, the band's book was written to cofeature Tommy's trombone.2009, Peter J. Levinson, Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way, A Biography, →ISBN. From the entry cofeature
• MOOJ: It's not about these rusty trombone, and dirty sanchez.2005, Directed by Judd Apatow. Written by Judd Apatow and Steve Carell, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. From the entry donkey punching
• He was wearing an atomic plum sportsjacket that made him look like part of the trombone section at a Carribbean bar-mitzvah.1989 February 26, Tony Kornheiser, “Commentary: Is the Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns Fight Really a War?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los…. From the entry sportsjacket
• 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
• For this occasion there were gathered together some five hundred musicians who played on fifes, fiddles, trumps, trombones, and pommers.1936, Ray Giles, «Here Comes the Band!», New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, page 176. From the entry pommer
• Any time a player's token lands on the top of a chute, the token must "slide" down to the final square where that chute is pictured (sad trombone).2019 January 31, “Chutes and Ladders: Legislative Bill Edition”, in City Weekly, page 10. From the entry sad trombone
• A swaggering ostinato on trombone suggests his glamoursome adventurousness, but Ray Nance's solo trumpet has a fallible wobble in its nobility (can Othello's tall tales be true?).2001, Wilfrid Howard Mellers, Wilfrid Mellers, Singing in the Wilderness. From the entry glamoursome
• The distribution of instruments is fairly traditional, but with piccolo trumpet and bass trombone to explore extremes, and bells, gongs and tam-tams to variegate the sound.2000 July 20, Bernard Holland, “LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL REVIEW; Messiaen's Nature Worship Calls on Bird Song and Faith”, in The New York…. From the entry exoticism
• But while the voices have immovable material, the groups of instruments, composing an orchestra of cornetti, viols in various sizes, and tromboni, present a sharp contrast.1950, Leo Schrade, Monteverdi, Creator of Modern Music, page 260. From the entry tromboni
• Then he played the opening notes of “On Green Dolphin Street,” glissed down from B flat to sixth-position F, secured the slide lock, and set the trombone on its stand.2013, J. F. Freedman, Key Witness, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry gliss

Meaning of trombone

1. noun A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
2. noun The common European bittern.
3. noun A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.

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How do you use trombone in a sentence?

Trombone is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Jim plays the trombone very well.”

What is a short sentence with trombone?

“This trombone is very expensive.”

What does trombone mean?

Trombone means a musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).