How to Use saxophone in a Sentence

saxophone

noun

• The George Michael saxophone — those kinds of moments — were just hitting the nail on the head.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2023
• The 43-year-old has a black belt in judo and also plays the saxophone.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2021
• Jake Clemons, the group’s saxophone player, missed the gig due to Covid but Ed Manion filled in for the evening.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• Otha Stokes came in on saxophone, who Skip played with in the Ohio Hustlers.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
• The sounds of worms and microorganisms at work emerged as the honking peals of a saxophone.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• During the video, Bushell plays the guitar, bass, keyboards, the saxophone, the güiro, and, for a few seconds, the drums.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2021
• In 1965, Sanders joined Coltrane’s group on tenor saxophone.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2022
• He was obsessed with jazz from a young age, entranced by the saxophone of Earl Bostic and the drums of Chico Hamilton.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• Apart from the town’s skyline, the citadel, and the rocks behind, this town along the Meuse River is the birthplace of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
  — Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 28 July 2020
• His father played the clarinet and saxophone in big bands.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• The ringleader for the band (Sean Nowell), who plays saxophone, is a Vestavia Hills grad.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 1 Mar. 2021
• The train has become a building, and Glass makes space for a wailing saxophone.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Mikal Cronin also played saxophone and cowrote the title track with Segall.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2022
• Alec leads the group, with his skillful saxophone work in the album’s seven songs.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2021
• Love wore a sparkly black suit to wail co-lead on the song with Cher — and Santa Claus even popped up to play a saxophone solo.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 Nov. 2023
• The truth is that dance music doesn't have enough saxophone solos.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2021
• Having said his piece, Chung leaves to practice the saxophone.
  — NBC News, 15 Dec. 2020
• Among those many things, of course, was playing saxophone.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
• For the jazz titan Sonny Rollins, the saxophone was a means to pierce the veil of indifference and outright hate.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• Jayson is a sophomore at Grand Army and an avid jazz saxophone player.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 16 Oct. 2020
• Clemons, by the way, uses his uncle’s saxophone on stage.
  — Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• Alessandra’s cousin played the saxophone while guests waited for the service to begin.
  — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022
• Lewis’s saxophone adds a bold voice to what the trio has done previously.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Both those parts were written by Evan Smith, who’s one of our saxophone players.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
• This unguarded track surfs along with its heart on its sleeve, plus a languid saxophone and a few great turns of phrase.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
• When Dean loses his position as first chair saxophone in the school band, Bill lays the pressure on him to earn it back.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
• And it was paired with Edgar Winter playing the saxophone, where my voice and his horn sort of played together.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2022
• Martin spent the set switching among the saxophone, synths, the vocoder and doing live production.
  — Nereya Otieno, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Models who play the saxophone or chess, hang 10 on their surfboard or snap photos.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 2 July 2024
• Billy Zoom swaps between his guitar and saxophone while D.J. Bonebrake keeps the beat moving.
  — Daniel Kohn, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024