orchestra
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
She performed with opera companies in Nashville and Atlanta, and in Texas she sang with the Dallas Opera, with symphony orchestras in Irving and Plano, and with a master chorale in Amarillo.
From Los Angeles Times
The annual Carnegie Hall visit of Harry Bicket and the English Concert, the superb period-instrument orchestra, is a required date for Handel opera fans.
But we were miles from the railroad, and this was a full orchestra, with violins.
From Literature
The orchestra has never been much for anniversaries or holiday music, but it clearly is this season.
From Los Angeles Times
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