How to Use cello in a Sentence

cello

noun

• Tomkins is on the viola; her sister, Tanya, plays cello, and the rest of the musicians change from year to year.
  — Mindy Sink, The Know, 22 June 2019
• Plus, the evening will feature the premiere of Ortiz’s new cello concerto.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
• About an hour into the investigation, a man with a cello appeared alongside the police tape.
  — Marisa Peryer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2019
• Bailey’s main instrument, a Goffriller cello, is 326 years old.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2019
• The cello is hauntingly beautiful, and adds a gorgeous theatrical element to the tune.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2019
• Bailey is protective of his Goffriller cello and understandably so.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2019
• In classical terms, this begins as an Adagio in D minor — a slow lament led by a solo cello, that accelerates into a chaotic swell of strings.
  — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
• The cello, for me, was still the main instrument, and just a core sound of the show.
  — Amon Warmann, Variety, 25 May 2023
• Pull the strip, slip the cello off the sides and the fillings drop right into the nori, ready to eat.
  — Dominic Armato, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
• One thing the cello can’t do is hold many notes at once.
  — David Marchese, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
• It’s not out here where the piano keys are, or where the cello is.
  — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2021
• With the system turned on, the sound under the balcony was equal to the sound in the main space, even from the cello.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
• The cello is closest to the human voice, so there’s a long solo in the piece.
  — Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
• In the theme’s reprise, the upper line moves from the first cello to the viola, and the piece sings from the inside out.
  — Daniel Gelernter, National Review, 2 Nov. 2019
• That grand piano in the foyer, the cello in the entryway, the rows of bourbons in the bar?
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2021
• One or more of the cellos didn’t always land in the center of pitches.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
• Through the subwoofer, the warm, rich strains of the cello vibrated in the still air of my living room.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• The cello and the double-bass: larger and deeper still.
  — Richard Siken, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• That electric cello melody sure is easy enough to get stuck in my head.
  — Courtney Lanning, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2020
• Once a duo, Wild Child is now a septet, with members on horns, cello and keys.
  — Annie Zaleski, Chron, 14 Dec. 2022
• The ambient cello and night owls are quiet, for once, and the pace, at last, rests.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2024
• Her preferred instruments were the most human: the flute and the cello.
  — Joshua Barone, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• Summers were crowded, what with all the poets and the artists and one year a group of cello students.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
• Hynes played cello, adding extra punch to the raw ballad.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022
• The low registers of the bass clarinet and cello then evoke clouds of infrared light.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• Tikhonova has been playing the cello for more than four decades.
  — Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2020
• The cello was played by a young officer who asked not to be named or photographed.
  — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• But the cello did not inspire him, so his father gave him a trombone.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 June 2022
• As an 11-year-old, Brooke had been taking karate, soccer, cello and dance lessons and singing in a church choir.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Sacha Baron Cohen plays the cello and is planning to take some Zoom classes from the masters.
  — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024