How to Use trombone in a Sentence

trombone

noun

• Jakob plays the trombone and has played in the school band.
  — Boys & Girls Aid, oregonlive.com, 29 June 2019
• Portune in high school could play trombone and was a great singer.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• What’s your favorite type of music to play on the trombone?
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2021
• That opening trombone theme is worked to death in the choral finale.
  — Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2023
• Alex Schachter was a freshman who played trombone in the school’s marching band.
  — Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
• 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
• As well as being an avid gamer, Kiderlen loves math, plays trombone in the middle school band and is in the school choir.
  — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 30 July 2019
• Maines cradles his trombone and flips the sheet music on the stand before him.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
• As the sun beat down on the pavilion, Greenlees made his first portrait of a man playing the trombone.
  — Ceili Doyle, The Enquirer, 4 Aug. 2020
• And Greene pulled out a nasty trombone to go with his leads, as well as adding some poignant harmonies when others were in the front.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Your flow is one of hip-hop’s most unique — like a slide trombone swallowing an oboe.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 17 May 2023
• The band isn't new to the area, and in fact, was formed about 28 years ago, said Jim Monroe of White Hall, the band's president and a trombone player.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Nov. 2022
• Even trombones and timpani got carried away here and there.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 29 Feb. 2020
• In the middle movement, the trombone emerges from hushed oozes of strings to sing more lyric music, again answered by horn.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020
• With Blood, Sweat & Tears, Halligan played the trombone, keyboard and flute.
  — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2022
• But with this piece, the sound of the music — the big band with the trombone and strings and stuff — that is the work of the orchestrators, and that was baked into the show from very early on.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• The Parkses are a devout couple and Kerry plays trombone in their church’s band.
  — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2021
• Many knew exactly what to do as the first notes of a pair of trombones cut through the air, drowning out the whirring of a helicopter overhead.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• This is the perfect book to distract you from your neighbor, who’s now on the fourth hour of his daily trombone practice.
  — Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2021
• In junior high school, braces kept me from playing a clarinet or trombone.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
• His mother was a voice teacher and his father played trombone in a salsa band.
  — Ed Leibowitz, Time, 17 Oct. 2022
• Alex played the baritone in the school marching band and trombone in the school orchestra, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 14 Feb. 2023
• Givens was a trombone player in high school and college and spent close to a decade singing bass in barbershop quartets.
  — oregonlive, 18 May 2021
• The concert features Dean Ratzman, who sings and plays the piano, trumpet and trombone.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2023
• Alex Schachter was a talented trombone player in the school marching band.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2022
• Tiegs, 16, was playing trombone in his high school's marching band when a man plowed his SUV through the parade, killing at least six people.
  — Ayushi Agarwal, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2021
• Young George played trombone as a boy and was proficient enough on the banjo to play in jazz bands in college and afterward.
  — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• There would be little of the topless, trombone-playing debauchery of the usual march, this year.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 24 June 2020
• The concert features Dean Ratzman, who sings and plays the piano, trumpet, trombone.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2023
• His father worked in nearby Fort Dix as a civil servant, and also played and taught trombone.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024