How to Use sousaphone in a Sentence

sousaphone

noun
  • Was that a synth or a sousaphone?
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
  • Trevor was the guy who brought a sousaphone with him.
    — Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Even the guy wearing a 50-pound sousaphone glides about the stage with poise.
    — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The melody is carried as a saxophone and sousaphone join in.
    — Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The 17-year-old senior was a sousaphone player in the marching band.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Passing drivers honked in support as a musician blew tunes on a bright pink sousaphone.
    — Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2021
  • Allan managed the artists and occasionally picked up his sousaphone and played with the band.
    — Jeanie Riess, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • One Oakton student owned a guitar, so the band leaned on that instrument and the sousaphones to play the songs’ bass.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Pete’s sousaphone often played a crucial role in the group’s music, serving as both rhythmic and melodic core.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Songs in Guadeloupean Creole backed by blues guitar and sousaphone.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • New Orleans is a town where a trombone can cause a traffic jam, and a sousaphone can lure a thousand people into the streets.
    — Jenny Adams, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The sonorous rumble of a sousaphone laid down the low end, while cymbals, hi-hats, snare drums and bass drum offered the dynamic beats that elevate dance-floor denizens like a drug.
    — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The rattling kitchen implements in the Karpman piece aren’t even the noisiest element; not when a sousaphone rears up for a few bars elsewhere in the concert.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Purrazzo played piano and percussive instruments while Wcislo played tuba and sousaphone and was also a choir member.
    — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Christmas carols will be performed by over 200 tuba, sousaphone and euphonium players.
    — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Simpler emotionally but just as potent visually is a picture of a sousaphone’s shiny bell, which refracts a marching band musician’s uniform into an abstract red swirl.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Jim Roberts on banjo and Andrew Hitz on sousaphone (a later instrumental addition to the score) were also highlights of the evening.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Jaffe's sousaphone tuba, manufactured by Mario Corso, is boldly marked with the name Preservation Hall on the bell.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Featuring two drummers, two trumpeters, two trombonists, a saxophonist and the tuba-like sousaphone, this funk and hip-hop savvy group salutes and extends the brass band tradition with infectious verve.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Instead, the Alabama and Ohio State bands were shown on video boards playing school fight songs — the senior sousaphone player still dotted the I, only remotely.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Adam Blackstone, a jack-of-all-trades who plays bass, drums, piano, organ, tuba and sousaphone — and is also a songwriter, producer, composer and everything else under the musical sun — is more than ready to step in.
    — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Six years later, Orchestra Noir is comprised of 50 pieces, with the addition of a few non-traditional elements, such as the sousaphone (a strap-on tuba), the drums, and the saxophone.
    — al, 7 May 2022
  • One of the Kennedy Center’s stranger holiday traditions finds up to 200 tuba, euphonium and sousaphone players joining forces for a brassy and very merry concert of seasonal songs.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • With students on holiday break, the Gophers men’s basketball pep band was down to a couple dozen members, including just two sousaphones, for Sunday evening’s nonconference tilt with Campbell University.
    — Tris Wykes, Twin Cities, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In an annual tradition that was started 49 years ago in New York and has since expanded across the country, low brass (tuba, sousaphone and euphonium) players of all ages are welcome to join in the merriment of Tuba Christmas.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The University of Akron’s School of Music will feature summer favorites performed by dozens of tuba, sousaphone, baritone and euphonium musicians from the region, not just those associated with the university.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 June 2021

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