How to Use wind instrument in a Sentence

wind instrument

noun
  • Imagine mastodon-like creatures whose noses are wind instruments that inflate the structures and emit sound.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The setup comes with a bunch of sonic presets to flex and slide the sounds of piano, strings, wind instruments or synths.
    — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
  • André took an interest in wind instruments at least 20 years ago.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Picturesque wind instruments suddenly burst forth as if a flock of birds were flying over the pyramids.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • String players, for example, were required to learn a wind instrument.
    — Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2019
  • The duck call itself is a wind instrument not unlike the harmonica.
    — Author: Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The band is always looking for new wind instrument and percussion players.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The band is always looking for new wind instrument and percussion players.
    — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • All thrive in a sonic landscape informed by art-rock and dream-pop and favor short, oblique songs enriched with wind instruments and lush strings.
    — Ernesto Lechner, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • The production is huge, with thumping drums and various wind instruments.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Angst and anger, which are a big part of Eastman’s psyche, turn to beauty and grace, thanks to jubilant riffs on high wind instruments.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
  • Lewis was drolly skeptical about wind instruments having a breakthrough.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Our voice is the only musical instrument that is both a string and a wind instrument—as the breath causes the vocal cords to vibrate.
    — Guillaume Jacquemont, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021
  • German sailors traded the wind instrument with Colombians in exchange for food and other supplies.
    — Daniella Tello-Garzon, refinery29.com, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The research team determined that the finger holes had been made with a flint tool so precise that the holes could be sealed with a fingertip, the sine qua non of wind instruments.
    — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As a child, Nello took piano lessons and learned to play the violin, viola and several wind instruments as well.
    — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • An animal horn – typically a ram’s horn – used as a wind instrument, the shofar is featured over 70 times in the Torah.
    — Sarah Pessin, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Even the mighty Beethoven, who seemed to write a defining work in almost every form, wrote only a single piano quintet, with wind instruments standing in for the strings.
    — Punch Shaw, star-telegram, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In contrast to the concert’s beginning, Long Yu led firmly, bringing out the fiery brilliance of the strings and the depth of the wind instruments.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Kapadia and his team decided to use a didgeridoo, which is a wind instrument originating in Australia.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Practically nothing else is as good at being a wind instrument simulator, either.
    — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • On a recent afternoon, violins, wind instruments, percussion and brass came through with balance and clarity.
    — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • Using electronic keyboards, synths, and merging them with the wind instruments common in corridos, Nuñez plans to make timeless music.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Within a few moments, she’s joined by the flute choir, playing the wind instrument in characteristically eccentric makeup.
    — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2017
  • In a concert for the entire family, NewEar will explore animal sounds and themes through wind instruments and a string quartet during its performance at the zoo.
    — Dan Kelly, kansascity, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Results from wind instrument-playing experiments are pending further data analysis and peer review.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Traditional wind instruments and drums provide a soundtrack for the action, the music rising and falling according to the intensity as the fights unfold.
    — Washington Post, 4 July 2018
  • While the didgeridoo might be an, er, unconventional choice of wind instrument for a small-town politician, having a musical bulletpoint on a politician’s personal résumé is not.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • While the didgeridoo might be an, er, unconventional choice of wind instrument for a small-town politician, having a musical bulletpoint on a politician's personal résumé is not.
    — Emily Heil, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • One of these wind instruments has turned up in remarkable condition in England, one of only three such objects known in Britain and one of the most complete found in Europe to date.
    — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026

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