instruments

Example Sentences

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The credits list well over a dozen instruments, but there’s never a sense of a band—almost no interplay or individual parts that command attention.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The company designs and produces precision instruments used to measure temperature, pressure, level and flow, supplying customers in about 90 countries worldwide.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

That is, “liquidate equities priced on disinflationary assumptions, hold short-duration instruments that reprice with rates, and wait. Cash earning 5% while inflation is 3.5% is not a great real return.”

From MarketWatch • May 4, 2026

Unlike the Redondo Union trio, he doesn’t surf and plays no instruments even though his Redondo Union friends are looking for a drummer to start a band.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

On the third try, the pilot finally rose using his instruments alone—without being able to see anything out of the windows—to get them aloft.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone