How to Use woodwind in a Sentence

woodwind

noun
  • He plays all the woodwind instruments very well.
  • It’s made out of brass, but the very means of making the sound is woodwind.
    — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • All that could have helped were softer colors from the woodwinds and brass.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2019
  • How things will go when woodwind and brass players return remains to be seen.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2020
  • There is a moment where the wind players – the brass and woodwinds – have to whisper.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • In a section of frothy trills, Schwartz addressed the woodwinds.
    — Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Then a woodwind part comes in, light and airy, and with it an overwhelming feeling of grace.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2026
  • This month, the spotlight is on the music of brass and woodwind instruments.
    — courant.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Rubenstein plays a lot of brass and strings, Kaufman a lot of woodwinds and keyboards.
    — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Pride of place went to the woodwind principals, all Dudamel picks.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The break might be the movement from verse to chorus in a pop song or from strings to woodwinds in a classical work.
    — Jesse Freund, WIRED, 1 Sep. 1997
  • There are plenty of woodwind and brass solos in this work, all of which were played with the utmost care and passion.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
  • In marching bands, brass and woodwind instruments must have bell covers.
    — Chad Calder | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Brosvik said the symphony will try to work the brass and woodwind players into the mix for the second week.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The goal is eventually to have a full orchestra of strings, woodwinds and brass.
    — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Hearing the San Diego woodwind quintet rehearse with my dad at our home.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The album takes the acclaimed lyricist from the rap world to jazz as a woodwind artist, highlighting him as a flutist.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Lovely work by the woodwinds was often trodden over by other sections.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The bass flute and clarinet round out Siobhan’s theme with strings and woodwind instruments added in.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Wu Wei, who plays a polyphonic woodwind instrument called the shen.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • In addition to the strings, there were percussion, horn and woodwinds added to layer the music.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Silken strings and luminous woodwinds were the key factors in a spellbinding reverie.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The work in question, winter’s New Dawn, is a stately tour of a woodwind lifer’s gifts.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The Adagio had a tragic cast, with the woodwinds expressing it keenly.
    — Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • James mastered the woodwind instrument but then his music teacher asked him to pick up the saxophone.
    — Kathleen Luppi, Daily Pilot, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The orchestra’s kick-off to summer concert features the strings, brass and woodwind sections.
    — oregonlive, 9 June 2021
  • The brass encountered a bit of raggedness, the woodwinds a touch of sour intonation, but things got tighter quickly.
    — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2018
  • The strings held their own with the exclamatory brasses, while the woodwinds joined in with their own assertive voices.
    — Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • For God’s sake, its theme song conjures a clowns’ circus suite — whoopee-cushion tuba, banana-peel woodwinds.
    — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Brass woodwinds produce a jazzy backdrop for Gates to nestle her way through a timeless beat that could’ve arrived any of the last few decades.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2024

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