How to Use lute in a Sentence

lute

noun
  • The play centered on Talia, who wrote songs about her ex-boyfriends on the lute.
    — Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Plus Chris Pine plays the lute for a moment, if that’s your thing.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 July 2022
  • Edgin avoids the thick of combat, preferring to play insipid songs on his lute.
    — Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In addition to the pipa, Min will play the ruan, a four-string lute, and the sanxian, a three-string lute.
    — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2023
  • At first sight, the bandura looks like a cross between a lute and a guitar, with 60 strings across the front of its hollow wooden body.
    — John Pana, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The band kept tweaking the arrangement, adding a mandolin, even a lute at one point, but Bains wasn’t quite satisfied.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Do those Ren Faire girls think owning a lute is the same as having a personality?
    — Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • Rafiullah Arman was a reporter for Afghan state TV, and enjoyed playing the traditional rubab lute for friends.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2021
  • One of them, Mani Nilchiani, would bring his setar, a traditional Iranian lute—and these dinner parties would often turn into intimate concerts.
    — Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Roustom, who plays the oud, a kind of lute mainly performed in Arab countries, is well-versed in both Middle Eastern and Western classical musical traditions.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 May 2021
  • The ensemble consists of music students from Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire who play on baroque-era style instruments including harpsichord, theorbo (a type of lute), baroque violin and viola da gamba.
    — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • There are voices, like Mariamielle Lamagat’s and Themba Mvula’s, to stop you in your tracks; there are pieces of the eclectic orchestra that delight by their presence alone — a baritone flute, a theorbo lute, a bunch of plastic buckets played with drumsticks.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025

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