orchestra

Example Sentences

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To draw in travellers, the orchestra first played an opening piece at the top of the station's vast staircase.

From Barron's

Deluxe-theater owners had modeled their palaces after opera houses and temples, complete with velvet drapes, gilt ceilings and live orchestras.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Rhodes — and Finney — employ the steel guitar inventively, not just to evoke notes of melancholy often found in country music, but to bring an orchestra’s worth of color, texture and shading to the arrangements.”

From Los Angeles Times

She has orchestra friends and newspaper friends and neighborhood friends she’s known her entire life.

From Literature

He played the French horn to get a college scholarship, but found he didn’t want to play in orchestras for the rest of his life.

From MarketWatch