How to Use clarinet in a Sentence

clarinet

noun

• The cat is a clarinet, the duck an oboe, and brave Peter the strings.
  — The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• The bass clarinet in his hands looked more like a recorder.
  — Justin Sayers, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2018
• The band used flutes, clarinets and trumpets to play the songs’ melodies.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• Shaidayi starts singing as the man to his left plays the tabla and the one to his right a clarinet.
  — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
• When Minaj agreed, the talk-show host reached to the backseat of the car and pulled out a clarinet.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022
• The finished valve would be almost the size of a clarinet.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
• There's a three-part clarinet suite that the guy came up with, or the guitar leads.
  — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 19 June 2017
• The viola is the man, the clarinet is the woman and the piano is Mozart.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• Invent a clarinet and Mozart won’t be able to get enough of it.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
• My dad calls him the LeBron James of clarinet right now.
  — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 16 June 2022
• God, please, someone hit Woody on the head with a clarinet case.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 15 Dec. 2017
• Ash is lean kid with big eyes, deep voice, and plays clarinet in the marching band.
  — Anita Chabria, sacbee, 30 Sep. 2017
• Or maybe a guitar strum or even the fluid sound of a clarinet.
  — Nick Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
• As the sun begins to set and clarinet notes rise, the surrounding canyon turns from rust to pink to gold.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
• Yarl plays bass clarinet and was named second chair in the all-state band, according to the post.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• This works best for instruments like the trombone or the clarinet, where most of the air escapes through the bell.
  — Calli McMurray, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• The filmmaker is an avid jazz fan who has played clarinet in jazz bands for years.
  — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Bateman also plays clarinet and is a member of the Maine South Marching Band and sings in the school choir.
  — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• The senior plays the clarinet in the band and plans to study music therapy in college.
  — cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
• With one per part, plus bass clarinet and English horn, the winds were still sometimes too loud in the balance.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
• Jazzy clarinet, piping flute, the wail of a sax — each instrument had its chance to shine.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
• The low registers of the bass clarinet and cello then evoke clouds of infrared light.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• Next came stints playing clarinet in her school’s marching band and singing in its choir.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
• The tricky valveless trumpets weren’t the most polished, though, and the petite chalumeau, a precursor of the clarinet, veered in and out of tune.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2022
• Hanging off his belt, in a burlap case, is a clarimella, a type of Catalan folk clarinet.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020
• Lee played clarinet and sax and was teaching himself the banjo.
  — courant.com, 23 July 2019
• The first one not to get a crew cut, the first one to eschew bell bottoms, a clarinet player for the only rock band in South Ozone Park.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Early on, the younger Marsalis was given a clarinet by his mother.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• The moment the clarinet introduces the klezmer theme, everybody knows exactly what Mahler’s trying to say.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
• Here, the space felt uncannily suited to the music’s slow dissolves and diffuse colors — the horns and clarinets were especially entrancing.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024