How to Use double bass in a Sentence

double bass

noun
  • Further back, the rich cherry wood of a double bass loomed large.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
  • My dad is a double bass player and my mom is a clarinet player.
    — Quincy Green, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a lot of double bass drums and powerful things going on in the songs.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
  • This son of two music teachers is also made up to play his own double bass on the show.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The slap of the double bass strings on the fingerboard can be heard in their tiniest detail.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • In our house, our son has gone from playing clarinet to playing guitars and now a double bass.
    — New Atlas, 6 June 2026
  • Playing double bass became one of my hobbies — just a little, just for fun.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Horns were sometimes too loud (and not always secure on top notes), oboes too recessed; one double bass would have been enough.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2021
  • The band's heavy sound is known for singer Jesse Leach's growling, angry vocals and quick double bass drums.
    — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Fingers skitter up and down the strings of a double bass, hands massage the piano keys, brushes gently scratch at the drums.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The double bass evolved through centuries of experimentation with the physics of sound.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026
  • After that it became known as the Karr-Koussevitzky double bass.
    — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2017
  • Last Round pits two string quartets against each other, separated by a double bass in the middle.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Rocker, who played cello as a child before switching to double bass, had a few brushes with Bernstein in his youth.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
  • In the background, a drummer, double bass player and three marimba players started to perform.
    — Ruben Vives Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021
  • Closely related to the European double bass, the tololoche is smaller in size.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The double bass became both the heartbeat and the guide of jazz, supporting the ensemble while adding its own rhythmic and melodic voice.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026
  • Later, Hancock asked the double bass player what had given him the strength to summon the performance.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
  • That said, the basement garage level in particular has become so popular, he was once kicked out by a double bass player.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
  • But high violin writing was occasionally less than fine tuned, and at least in this acoustic the double bass was often too boomy.
    — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The woman’s name is Orin O’Brien, and she was hired by Leonard Bernstein to play double bass.
    — Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Both theme songs make heavy use of the lower strings of violas, cellos and double basses, which further darken the sonic palette.
    — Delia Casadei, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
  • Violin, double bass, and a whole lot of synthesizers and guitar pedals and samplers and things which are great for mangling sounds.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Graeham was named the finalist in jazz/double bass and Tim was recognized for jazz guitar at the merit level.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Her future husband, William Vance, was an engineer who played double bass with the orchestra.
    — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
  • The large wooden body of the double bass acts as a resonator, transferring and strengthening those vibrations so they can be heard across a room or concert hall.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026
  • Instead, Tapia de Veer turned to the daxophone, which is essentially a thin plank of wood that is played with a violin or double bass bow.
    — Mike Wass, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
  • After playing double bass during McBride’s opening walk-on and closing walk-off numbers, she was invited to stick around for the encore.
    — Yoshi Kato, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The way Orin describes the double bass as the sturdy floor of the orchestra is inspiring — without it, the whole concert will fall, but it’s also not meant to be noticed.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • In fact, the name double bass comes from the instrument’s original role of doubling the bass line (often the cello line an octave lower) in large musical ensembles.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026

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