How to Use woodwind in a Sentence

woodwind

noun

• He plays all the woodwind instruments very well.
• It’s made out of brass, but the very means of making the sound is woodwind.
  — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
• In a section of frothy trills, Schwartz addressed the woodwinds.
  — Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• There is a moment where the wind players – the brass and woodwinds – have to whisper.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• All that could have helped were softer colors from the woodwinds and brass.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2019
• The primary concern lurks in the back of the orchestra: the woodwinds and brass.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 June 2020
• Then, the music started: a springy horn soon joined by some woodwinds.
  — Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
• Rubenstein plays a lot of brass and strings, Kaufman a lot of woodwinds and keyboards.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• The break might be the movement from verse to chorus in a pop song or from strings to woodwinds in a classical work.
  — Jesse Freund, WIRED, 1 Sep. 1997
• Brosvik said the symphony will try to work the brass and woodwind players into the mix for the second week.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
• This month, the spotlight is on the music of brass and woodwind instruments.
  — courant.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• There are plenty of woodwind and brass solos in this work, all of which were played with the utmost care and passion.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• The bass flute and clarinet round out Siobhan’s theme with strings and woodwind instruments added in.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
• How things will go when woodwind and brass players return remains to be seen.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2020
• The goal is eventually to have a full orchestra of strings, woodwinds and brass.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 4 Aug. 2017
• The violins were tuning, the woodwinds warming up and the trumpets blaring bits of Mahler.
  — James Estrin Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 28 May 2023
• And, maybe most importantly: plays well with Thomas Wilkins and woodwinds.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
• Among the accomplished woodwind principals, clarinetist Rane Moore received — and deserved — the first bow at the end of the night.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Plus, nothing ruins a hard rock power ballad more than the version produced by out-of-tune strings and woodwinds at the hands of 13- and 14-year-olds.
  — Amy Wolff, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• The Wildcat Band has about 65 players on woodwinds, brass and percussion.
  — Laura Groch, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 May 2018
• Upward-drifting woodwind lines fade into the deep blue.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
• The brass encountered a bit of raggedness, the woodwinds a touch of sour intonation, but things got tighter quickly.
  — Tim Smith, baltimoresun.com, 2 June 2018
• Wu Wei, who plays a polyphonic woodwind instrument called the shen.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
• The orchestra’s kick-off to summer concert features the strings, brass and woodwind sections.
  — oregonlive, 9 June 2021
• The principal woodwinds had a brilliant night, and Dausgaard singled them out for some well-deserved bows.
  — Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
• The most memorable image of Rahsaan Roland Kirk is with at least three woodwind instruments hanging around his neck, if not in his mouth, at the same time.
  — Michael J. Agovino, Esquire, 31 May 2016
• In marching bands, brass and woodwind instruments must have bell covers.
  — Chad Calder | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2020
• Secondhand woodwinds and strings will make that happen.
  — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 24 Dec. 2017
• The strings, in the second movement, popped with uniform electricity, and the woodwinds in the Scherzo were musical poets, one and all.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 15 July 2019
• For God’s sake, its theme song conjures a clowns’ circus suite — whoopee-cushion tuba, banana-peel woodwinds.
  — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024