How to Use oboe in a Sentence

oboe

noun
  • The best of it again came from flute, clarinet, oboe and the horns.
    — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Scott put down her oboe and didn’t pick it up again for 45 years.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2022
  • The oboe plays a jaunty melody while the strings toss off fast filigree.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Sarah Skuster brought her usual tonal care and beauty to her oboe part.
    — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Dec. 2017
  • The cat is a clarinet, the duck an oboe, and brave Peter the strings.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Your flow is one of hip-hop’s most unique — like a slide trombone swallowing an oboe.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • There are also two concertos, one for oboe and one for piano.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 June 2018
  • There, a strange man with an oboe sat on the ridge of his tooth, playing wide vibratos through nimbusfog.
    — Airea D. Matthews, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Lennie learned the violin from his father, then began playing the oboe in grade school.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2020
  • Here The fact of prison affects each spring The way an oboe tunes the orchestra.
    — Anne Mette Lundtofte, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Marc Lachat’s oboe could have been the jolting voice of a wild animal in the jungle.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The oboe transforms the three notes into the theme from the A section of the third movement.
    — Jeff Banowetz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The Hogsetts discovered that the plant can be used to make an oboe reed after one of their friends did just that.
    — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The oboe proves an excellent conduit for such enigmatic games.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • William learned to play the oboe, violin and organ, and followed his father into the band.
    — New York Times, 27 June 2022
  • The ranks mimic the sounds of other instruments, like the clarinet, the oboe and the trumpet.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Jill plays the oboe, Janet the piano and sax, Jay the baritone and Jeff the tuba.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Even putting a simple melody in a French horn, or violin, or an oboe already sounds different.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The girls’ defenses aren’t much slicker; in one episode, a humble oboe plays a key role in defeating a baddie.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Two of those lines are played by two melodic instruments — violins, recorders, or in the case of Zelenka’s work, two oboes.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Rather metallic sounding oboes were too aggressive in the Funeral March.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Jeffrey played the bassoon, Mark the oboe, both in high demand in orchestras and other ensembles.
    — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
  • But the restrictions have also hurt companies that use relatively tiny amounts of the wood in guitars, clarinets and oboes.
    — Michael Casey, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
  • To get his instrumental music degree, Ruben Miranda learned how to play the oboe.
    — Lily Altavena, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The sort of uncool even someone very uncool like me would have known enough to conceal—me who wore khakis and played oboe and had braces and yes for a phase had basically no friends.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Over the course of the 12-minute work, there are radiant brass chorales, luscious strings and a consoling melody intoned by single oboe, then a flute.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Without the bright contributions of so many soloists on timpani, baroque trumpet, traverse flute, and oboe, many sections wouldn’t have been half as potent.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
  • WIlson, who plays oboe with the Wind Symphony, is looking forward to the concert.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Françaix uses the wind ensemble to create a lively back-and-forth between the bright timbres of flutes and oboes and the richer tones of clarinets and bassoons.
    — Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There were scattered fluffs from the first oboe and horn but nothing to detract from a reading that brought Beethovenian power and eloquence to blazing life.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018

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