How to Use double bass in a Sentence

double bass

noun

• The flickering strum of a wheeled double bass set the tone inside the Metro car.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Further back, the rich cherry wood of a double bass loomed large.
  — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• There’s a lot of double bass drums and powerful things going on in the songs.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2021
• The slap of the double bass strings on the fingerboard can be heard in their tiniest detail.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• This son of two music teachers is also made up to play his own double bass on the show.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• My dad is a double bass player and my mom is a clarinet player.
  — Quincy Green, Billboard, 15 Nov. 2022
• The band's heavy sound is known for singer Jesse Leach's growling, angry vocals and quick double bass drums.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• During a 2008 interview with The Times at his home, Mr. Lee played piano and double bass.
  — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• Part of Dave Leon’s mental health journey has been trying to master the double bass, which he’s been playing for 25 years.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• Playing double bass became one of my hobbies — just a little, just for fun.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Horns were sometimes too loud (and not always secure on top notes), oboes too recessed; one double bass would have been enough.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2021
• After that it became known as the Karr-Koussevitzky double bass.
  — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2017
• Later, Hancock asked the double bass player what had given him the strength to summon the performance.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2022
• Last Round pits two string quartets against each other, separated by a double bass in the middle.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 17 Nov. 2020
• Graeham was named the finalist in jazz/double bass and Tim was recognized for jazz guitar at the merit level.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2019
• Instead, Tapia de Veer turned to the daxophone, which is essentially a thin plank of wood that is played with a violin or double bass bow.
  — Mike Wass, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
• In the background, a drummer, double bass player and three marimba players started to perform.
  — Ruben Vives Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021
• Hobin played in rock bands until deciding to focus on double bass at the age of 16; at the same age, Taghavi switched from saxophone and jazz to classical bassoon.
  — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• Grissino-Mayer and colleagues determined conclusively that the last growth ring present on the double bass grew in 1761.
  — Stephen E. Nash, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2017
• By this point, he had been joined on stage by surprise guest Endea Owens on the double bass, and the two of them soldiered on with the distant beeping of alarms competing ominously in the background.
  — Connor Ratliff, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2023
• Her future husband, William Vance, was an engineer who played double bass with the orchestra.
  — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2019
• Both theme songs make heavy use of the lower strings of violas, cellos and double basses, which further darken the sonic palette.
  — Delia Casadei, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
• Her two growing children had become serious about their music and needed room for a piano and a double bass.
  — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• Violin, double bass, and a whole lot of synthesizers and guitar pedals and samplers and things which are great for mangling sounds.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Feb. 2024
• Our take: This electric upright is a great transition from an acoustic upright to an electric bass guitar but can still be bowed or plucked like a double bass.
  — Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
• An especially savvy move was the use of a large double bass rather than the traditional shoulder-slung rock instrument.
  — Robert Ham, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2018
• After playing double bass during McBride’s opening walk-on and closing walk-off numbers, she was invited to stick around for the encore.
  — Yoshi Kato, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Mar. 2018
• But high violin writing was occasionally less than fine tuned, and at least in this acoustic the double bass was often too boomy.
  — Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
• That said, the basement garage level in particular has become so popular, he was once kicked out by a double bass player.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
• According to her personal website, Jaouad attended the pre-college program for the double bass at The Juilliard School.
  — Taiwo Balogun, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024