How to Use clarinet in a Sentence

clarinet

noun

• Ash is lean kid with big eyes, deep voice, and plays clarinet in the marching band.
  — Anita Chabria, sacbee, 30 Sep. 2017
• There's a three-part clarinet suite that the guy came up with, or the guitar leads.
  — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 19 June 2017
• In recent years his duo with Duthoit, who uses her clarinet in similar fashion, has been his main vehicle.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 19 May 2017
• Horn calls peaked the enormous tutti crescendos, and Till approached his somber end with an insolent whistle from clarinet.
  — By Libby Hanssen, kansascity, 3 June 2017
• In fact, Katz has arranged a traditional klezmer tune for the program, though each of the works features the clarinet prominently.
  — Sean Erwin, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
• Some from the Turkish Roma community join along the route with drums and clarinets, injecting music to the march.
  — Gul Tuysuz, CNN, 5 July 2017
• Till’s motifs swept though the ensemble, as horns, clarinets, bassoons, violin all had a chance to personate the character.
  — By Libby Hanssen, kansascity.com, 3 June 2017
• The large crowd of well-wishers that attended a special open house and reception returned that love through hugs, tributes, singing and even a clarinet quartet performance.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland.com, 12 June 2017
• Flea, who runs a music academy for young people in Silverlake, performed an unaccompanied bass clarinet piece.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The viola is the man, the clarinet is the woman and the piano is Mozart.
  — Martin Dale, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• There was big yellow music paper that would be on the piano, and down the left side would go trumpets, clarinets, trombones, violins.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 May 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024