How to Use clarinet in a Sentence

clarinet

noun
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  • The cat is a clarinet, the duck an oboe, and brave Peter the strings.
    — The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The bass clarinet in his hands looked more like a recorder.
    — Justin Sayers, The Courier-Journal, 27 June 2018
  • The band used flutes, clarinets and trumpets to play the songs’ melodies.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Shaidayi starts singing as the man to his left plays the tabla and the one to his right a clarinet.
    — Maija Liuhto, Longreads, 28 June 2018
  • When Minaj agreed, the talk-show host reached to the backseat of the car and pulled out a clarinet.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The finished valve would be almost the size of a clarinet.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
  • There's a three-part clarinet suite that the guy came up with, or the guitar leads.
    — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 19 June 2017
  • The viola is the man, the clarinet is the woman and the piano is Mozart.
    — Martin Dale, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Invent a clarinet and Mozart won’t be able to get enough of it.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • My dad calls him the LeBron James of clarinet right now.
    — Annie Nickoloff, cleveland, 16 June 2022
  • God, please, someone hit Woody on the head with a clarinet case.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Ash is lean kid with big eyes, deep voice, and plays clarinet in the marching band.
    — Anita Chabria, sacbee, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Or maybe a guitar strum or even the fluid sound of a clarinet.
    — Nick Hoppe, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2018
  • As the sun begins to set and clarinet notes rise, the surrounding canyon turns from rust to pink to gold.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Yarl plays bass clarinet and was named second chair in the all-state band, according to the post.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • The filmmaker is an avid jazz fan who has played clarinet in jazz bands for years.
    — Beth Decarbo, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Bateman also plays clarinet and is a member of the Maine South Marching Band and sings in the school choir.
    — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The senior plays the clarinet in the band and plans to study music therapy in college.
    — cleveland, 22 Aug. 2022
  • With one per part, plus bass clarinet and English horn, the winds were still sometimes too loud in the balance.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Jazzy clarinet, piping flute, the wail of a sax — each instrument had its chance to shine.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The low registers of the bass clarinet and cello then evoke clouds of infrared light.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Next came stints playing clarinet in her school’s marching band and singing in its choir.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The tricky valveless trumpets weren’t the most polished, though, and the petite chalumeau, a precursor of the clarinet, veered in and out of tune.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Hanging off his belt, in a burlap case, is a clarimella, a type of Catalan folk clarinet.
    — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Lee played clarinet and sax and was teaching himself the banjo.
    — courant.com, 23 July 2019
  • The first one not to get a crew cut, the first one to eschew bell bottoms, a clarinet player for the only rock band in South Ozone Park.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Early on, the younger Marsalis was given a clarinet by his mother.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • There was big yellow music paper that would be on the piano, and down the left side would go trumpets, clarinets, trombones, violins.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 May 2024
  • The moment the clarinet introduces the klezmer theme, everybody knows exactly what Mahler’s trying to say.
    — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024

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