variants
or less commonly quartette
1
: a musical composition for four instruments or voices
2
: a group or set of four
especially
: the performers of a quartet
Examples of quartet in a Sentence
He is a member of a jazz quartet.
a string quartet by Beethoven
The author wrote a quartet of novels about the same character.
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—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2025
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Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2025
For three decades now, this quartet of college pals have produced an impressive body of work that is eminently hummable, a cornucopia of earworms that everyone knows even if most folks would fail to come up with the names of their songs.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 2 June 2025
This weekend, watch Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef, Jason Schwartzman, and Cory Michael Smith play a quartet of one percenters who meet at a remote mountain lodge during a financial crisis, each with their own plans and schemes to come out on top.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 May 2025
Among those dreamers lucky enough to reach out toward their hero was a quartet of travel basketball teammates whose parents drove them down from Pennsylvania.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for quartet
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“Quartet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quartet. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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quartet
noun
quar·tet
variants
also quartette
1
a
: a musical composition for four instruments or voices
b
: the performers of a quartet
2
: a group or set of four
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