How to Use violin in a Sentence

violin

noun
  • Her brother had long ago put away the violin and gone to bed.
    — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The violin also got a new case.
    — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • And all the horn lines on our final version are based on that violin line.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Braimah, now 28, picked up the violin.
    — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • My father played the violin and people would just stop in the room.
    — Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Leah Zeger joins in for two songs with her violin and sultry voice.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Magazine, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Choong, who played violin more than viola, met the group around that time.
    — Beth Wood, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The violin maker whose hands still sharpen the same knives.
    — Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Williams spent more than a year restoring the violin, which Huenink had played in high school.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Field first picked up a violin at the age of six as a first grader in Chicago.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The late priest is known for his great faith, humility and love of the violin.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Some places are hot, some are cold, some are humid and some are dry, and that affects how the violin sounds.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Suddenly, from one of the rooms, a cello and violin could be heard.
    — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • As its core, his theme is played by the violin in a very simple, intimate way with six notes.
    — Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • Zhen set down his suona and put his erhu, a type of Chinese violin, in his lap.
    — William Tong, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Lennie learned the violin from his father, then began playing the oboe in grade school.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2020
  • Faith plays violin, while Sunday likes to play the piano and make short films.
    — Maria Carter, Country Living, 5 June 2019
  • The fliers’ flute can barely be heard over the clash of violins, drums and guitars below.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Agam Berger has been playing the violin since the fourth grade.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
  • It was used to etch the tiny violin image on a chip, which was then filled with a thin layer of platinum.
    — New Atlas, 4 June 2025
  • The violins indeed soared toward the sun, then veered into seething brass.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The wider the violin, the more the event being measured occurred.
    — Bennie Contrino, Sports Illustrated, 14 June 2019
  • Or how about a string trio—violin, viola, cello—same, same, same.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But so too does fiddle — not violin, fiddle — and piano.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • One of the first and only directions [Nolan] gave me was to use the violin.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • But two weeks before the big day, Ray opens his violin case to find only a white sneaker.
    — Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Someone find me the world’s smallest violin.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Aura pulled out a violin while Simmons warmed up on the piano.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 28 Mar. 2026
  • His father, Tadeusz, was a lawyer who also played the violin and the piano.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Aug. 2020

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