How to Use oboe in a Sentence

oboe

noun

• The best of it again came from flute, clarinet, oboe and the horns.
  — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Scott put down her oboe and didn’t pick it up again for 45 years.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 1 July 2022
• Jill plays the oboe, Janet the piano and sax, Jay the baritone and Jeff the tuba.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
• The oboe transforms the three notes into the theme from the A section of the third movement.
  — Jeff Banowetz, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
• Here The fact of prison affects each spring The way an oboe tunes the orchestra.
  — Anne Mette Lundtofte, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2018
• The oboe plays a jaunty melody while the strings toss off fast filigree.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2020
• Sarah Skuster brought her usual tonal care and beauty to her oboe part.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• The Hogsetts discovered that the plant can be used to make an oboe reed after one of their friends did just that.
  — Roxanne Washington, cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
• Marc Lachat’s oboe could have been the jolting voice of a wild animal in the jungle.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Your flow is one of hip-hop’s most unique — like a slide trombone swallowing an oboe.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 17 May 2023
• There, a strange man with an oboe sat on the ridge of his tooth, playing wide vibratos through nimbusfog.
  — Airea D. Matthews, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• To this taste, the highpoint was the 20-minute Collision Etudes for solo oboe, by Alyssa Morris.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Lennie learned the violin from his father, then began playing the oboe in grade school.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2020
• William learned to play the oboe, violin and organ, and followed his father into the band.
  — New York Times, 27 June 2022
• About a minute in, over a lurching three-quarter dance rhythm, piccolos and oboe pipe out the D-S-C-H motto.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
• There are also two concertos, one for oboe and one for piano.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 June 2018
• The oboe concerto is Vaughan Williams at his pastoral best.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 25 June 2018
• Here Overturf nimbly played oboe, and along with Renk and Simmons, found wit in this pleasurable if slight work.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• Over the course of the 12-minute work, there are radiant brass chorales, luscious strings and a consoling melody intoned by single oboe, then a flute.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2017
• Michael Lesser, who lives in the next town over, came to Dover to see his daughter play oboe for the Memorial Day ceremony as part of the high school band.
  — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2018
• The girls’ defenses aren’t much slicker; in one episode, a humble oboe plays a key role in defeating a baddie.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2022
• Two of those lines are played by two melodic instruments — violins, recorders, or in the case of Zelenka’s work, two oboes.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
• Even putting a simple melody in a French horn, or violin, or an oboe already sounds different.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• Kucharski was a Cass Technical High School music major and played oboe in the school’s varsity band.
  — Alice Pepper, Detroit Free Press, 7 July 2022
• Jeffrey played the bassoon, Mark the oboe, both in high demand in orchestras and other ensembles.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Gorgeous flute and oboe work threaded the movement together.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• There were scattered fluffs from the first oboe and horn but nothing to detract from a reading that brought Beethovenian power and eloquence to blazing life.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• To get his instrumental music degree, Ruben Miranda learned how to play the oboe.
  — Lily Altavena, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2020
• On top of that, an achingly plangent background score from Valentin Hadjadj, all strings and oboe (the instrument Remi had been learning), sighs in a minor key.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
• At least from my seat, important oboe solos were barely audible, as were the signature flute chatters at the start of the Mendelssohn finale.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024