octet

Example Sentences

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But when you ask them about all that success, the octet are suddenly bashful.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

That program began with a small octet by Stravinsky and Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

The quartet are actually an octet, if their AI counterparts are to be counted – an inventive exercise in transmedia storytelling to match their forward-thinking pop sound.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024

For the flashing lights, booming electronics and pitch-bending vocal octet of a slew of premieres.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

I was the leader of the octet, and I was on the platform going to meet my partner when I first saw the flame.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various