How to Use trombone in a Sentence

trombone

noun
  • That's a trombone with the wolves.
    — Heather Abbott, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Portune in high school could play trombone and was a great singer.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • That opening trombone theme is worked to death in the choral finale.
    — Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Thompson plays trombone and has been with the band for 10 years.
    — Jerry Fallstrom, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 May 2018
  • My piano skills were those of a trombone player.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The sax — and the trumpet and trombone — are finding their place again in the genre.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Your flow is one of hip-hop’s most unique — like a slide trombone swallowing an oboe.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 17 May 2023
  • Alex played the trombone in the school’s marching band, the kids won a state title last year.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 15 Feb. 2018
  • John Philip Sousa, flags, 76 trombones.
    — Jim Beckerman, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Maines cradles his trombone and flips the sheet music on the stand before him.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
  • And there was a trombone player that my dad worked with named Joe Howard.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • Helly grabs a trombone and trombones Milchick right to the noggin.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • In junior high school, braces kept me from playing a clarinet or trombone.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Alex Schachter was a freshman who played trombone in the school’s marching band.
    — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • His mother was a voice teacher and his father played trombone in a salsa band.
    — Ed Leibowitz, Time, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Stop the trumpets, trombones and saxophones for a minute.
    — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The band reveled in outlandish stage antics—such as playing the trombone with the foot.
    — John Edward Hasse, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • One person was also seen playing what appeared to be a trombone.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • My son is a bright boy who takes painting lessons, plays the trombone, and dreams of being a filmmaker.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 May 2018
  • This works best for instruments like the trombone or the clarinet, where most of the air escapes through the bell.
    — Calli McMurray, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Alexander Schachter was a trombone player in the school's marching band.
    — Lauren Meltzer, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The sound, a bit like someone blowing a trombone for the first time, can carry up to a mile through the dense forest.
    — Paul Tullis, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
  • As well as being an avid gamer, Kiderlen loves math, plays trombone in the middle school band and is in the school choir.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2019
  • This time, the only music Joker will be dancing to is a sad trombone.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2024
  • In the middle movement, the trombone emerges from hushed oozes of strings to sing more lyric music, again answered by horn.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Matt, an Asian studies major, led the trombone section.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • And Greene pulled out a nasty trombone to go with his leads, as well as adding some poignant harmonies when others were in the front.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Givens was a trombone player in high school and college and spent close to a decade singing bass in barbershop quartets.
    — oregonlive, 18 May 2021
  • As the sun beat down on the pavilion, Greenlees made his first portrait of a man playing the trombone.
    — Ceili Doyle, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The eclectic style included jazzy touches, with wah-wah trombone and kicky rhythms touched off by the clarinet.
    — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018

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