instrument
Usage
Example Sentences
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Guests would bring their flutes or violins and, as each member of the family sang or played an instrument, we made quite an orchestra gathered around the upright piano in Tante Jans’s front room.
From Literature
It was by the grace of her academic spirit that her oeuvre expanded into other languages, genres and instruments; in “She Wolf” she dabbled in dance-pop.
From Los Angeles Times
The WBC allowed fans to bring in 16 “permissible instruments,” including bongos, cowbells, maracas and trumpets.
From Los Angeles Times
VOA was created in the wake of World War II as a key instrument of American soft power worldwide.
From Barron's
“It’s because governments usually resort to blunt instruments, opting for the bludgeon of sweeping tariffs and subsidies over the scalpel of industrial parks and skills development programs.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
