How to Use orchestral in a Sentence

orchestral

adjective
  • The song is a swelling, orchestral ode to the cycles of life and a call to live in the present.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Wix played a lot of the orchestral stuff and a bit of harp-y things.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In 1993, a new orchestral shell was installed on the stage.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Her lips move in the video but the only sound is the swelling orchestral music in the background.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
  • That came from making the songs longer and more orchestral.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The song laces a thumping bass line and 808 claps with orchestral loops as SwaVay stomps all over the beat with fiery bars.
    — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 17 July 2023
  • Want scratchy drum line and lush-ed-out orchestral swoon?
    — Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
  • My Back with New Blood, which gives his own tunes the orchestral treatment.
    — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • In 2016, Rachel Fuller agreed to create an orchestral score of the album.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 June 2024
  • Yes, on the orchestral stage, the conductor’s will still reigns.
    — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Because of that, the purely orchestral sections of the program were the weakest.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The main element of the melody is a rising fifth, from F-sharp to C-sharp, over an orchestral drone of D and F-sharp.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2020
  • As on the band's 2019 tour, which included an LCA show, the Who will be joined by an orchestral section for much of the set.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Tonight in Ohio, fingers were pointed in the air in the crowd as Trump spoke and swelling orchestral music was played through the speakers.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Still, there was much fine singing and orchestral playing.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
  • With the usual orchestral accoutrements cleared from the stage, the space seemed cavernous before the lights went down.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
  • In 2020, the group released an orchestral version of the song for their album Strings Attached.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 4 July 2023
  • After all, the bills have to get paid somehow, and in most of the orchestral sphere, the music director’s word is law.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Jackie‘s score is very orchestral, in the more traditional sense of the word, and booming.
    — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2021
  • Where the orchestral force shines brightest is in the lyrical Andante.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 23 Apr. 2021
  • There is a sparsity to the album, but at the same time there are orchestral elements, both of which serve the songs well.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 7 Aug. 2024
  • With Christmas just around the corner, a pair of orchestral albums are climbing the chart.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2020
  • At the structure’s other end is a space for orchestral music.
    — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • In 1974, as an escape from the grind of orchestral work, Waller started painting.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • For December 19 This is an baroque pop and orchestral pop song.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Paich: There was a lot of sound design going on with Lynch at the same time this orchestral stuff was being conceived.
    — Max Evry, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The film is capably shot on vast, frozen landscapes and makes decent use of a moody orchestral score.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The music in Guardians of the Galaxy is a story in three parts, and the experience wouldn’t be the same if not for the epic orchestral score Jacques composed.
    — Mat Ombler, Wired, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Celebrations of his life continued in the months that followed with the release of a special edition MetroCard featuring his image, as well as an orchestral tribute to his music at Lincoln Center.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
  • As Andrew Lloyd Webber’s go-to orchestrator during some of the composer’s most creative years, Cullen has translated many of the composer’s most arresting melodies into lush, full-bodied and evocative orchestral music.
    — Darryn King, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024

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