How to Use cello in a Sentence

cello

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• As a child, Dr. Ernst played the cello and gave thought to becoming a composer.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• The king has reportedly loved the cello since his time at boarding school.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
• Sarah Clayton, mother of three, wants her daughters to learn to play cello.
  — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2022
• The duo also made a series of Grammy Award-winning recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano in the 1980s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• Jaime now has his own bank account and car — and finally, a new cello.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2021
• Music director Fabio Luisi said in a statement that the gifts will enrich the sound of the cello section.
  — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Aves, the same way knowing how to place your fingers on a violin gives you a head start on the cello, the lute, and the electric guitar.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
• The Browns would also send their children to part-time day camps and one-off activities like cello and singing lessons.
  — Morgan Smith, CNBC, 24 July 2024
• The happiest day of those early months came when a Captain Powell brought Lasker-Wallfisch a cello.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024