How to Use piano in a Sentence

piano

noun
  • Do you play the piano?
  • He takes piano lessons on Wednesdays.
  • My dad played the piano at home.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2026
  • What was with all the white guys with pianos?
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Tuners can work on as many as five pianos a day.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Or to help carry a piano up five flights of stairs.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 1 May 2026
  • The life of a piano tuner is not glamorous.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Root sat down at the piano bench beside me.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • My piano is just around the corner here.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Can score a touchdown and play the piano.
    — Linda Perillo, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • He was already versed on the piano.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026
  • A lot of that type of new age piano music, that's good stuff.
    — Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Chico was a piano-playing con artist.
    — Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 16 June 2026
  • Adam, on piano, also found the groove.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • My dad played trumpet and piano.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Woodall stepped closer to the piano.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • His love for the piano was lifelong but not his playing days.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 24 May 2026
  • Not a tambourine, not a brief turn at the piano — nothing.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • He was plunked before a piano at age 3 and could play by ear by 5.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Anybody can play riffs on the bass, and anybody can play songs on the piano.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • At one point, my mom was my voice teacher, and my dad was my piano teacher.
    — Des Moines Register, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Myra Huang supports on the piano.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Joy’s voice sits inside a rich octet, where horns and piano converse like old friends.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Oversized crowbars bend wood for a piano’s rim.
    — Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Elsewhere, a lounge singer next to a piano has a scream that could knock Grace back.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The baby grand piano is still owned by Yoko Ono.
    — Mike Hanlon march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
  • There's a lush red booth by the window and a baby grand piano draped in lace by the front door.
    — Providence Journal, The Providence Journal, 7 Mar. 2026
  • His mother and sister played the piano.
    — Edie Kasten, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • In it, a man plays a piano that a service member later lights on fire.
    — Paulina Villegas, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023

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