symphony orchestra
Example Sentences
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She approached the headmaster at her conservatory who placed her in a string ensemble before advancing her to the symphony orchestra as a violinist.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour put a symphony orchestra on stage alongside the actors in a savage satire which dramatised the plight of Soviet dissidents locked away in mental hospitals.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
It’s a grand work operating on the largest scale, with a symphony orchestra, choirs and odes to saints rendered in many languages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
When Bryant heard John’s piece for the very first time, emanating from a symphony orchestra, “Oh my God,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
A full symphony orchestra was swelling out of the radio; their eldest sister Gwen was slicing onions and singing; their mother was bent broad-beamed and red-faced over an oven.
From "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
