How to Use lute in a Sentence
lute
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Plus Chris Pine plays the lute for a moment, if that’s your thing.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 July 2022
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The play centered on Talia, who wrote songs about her ex-boyfriends on the lute.
—Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
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Pine’s character seems to be a bard, shredding on a lute before shredding the air with a sword.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 July 2022
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At first sight, the bandura looks like a cross between a lute and a guitar, with 60 strings across the front of its hollow wooden body.
—John Pana, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2022
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Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his shed, sits down beneath the fiery midday sun, and starts to play.
—Reuters, ABC News, 6 June 2021
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Similar to a lute, the oud is an ancient 11-stringed instrument from the Middle East and North Africa.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
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Edgin avoids the thick of combat, preferring to play insipid songs on his lute.
—Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
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The band kept tweaking the arrangement, adding a mandolin, even a lute at one point, but Bains wasn’t quite satisfied.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2022
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Do those Ren Faire girls think owning a lute is the same as having a personality?
—Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
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Rafiullah Arman was a reporter for Afghan state TV, and enjoyed playing the traditional rubab lute for friends.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2021
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Roustom, who plays the oud, a kind of lute mainly performed in Arab countries, is well-versed in both Middle Eastern and Western classical musical traditions.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 May 2021
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One of them, Mani Nilchiani, would bring his setar, a traditional Iranian lute—and these dinner parties would often turn into intimate concerts.
—Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2022
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Reflecting Sudan’s far-ranging musical heritage, Mr. Elkabli performed solo with an oud (a lute) or backed by a big-band orchestra, and his songs addressed love, folk song themes of heroism and chivalry, and politics.
—Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
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The ensemble consists of music students from Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire who play on baroque-era style instruments including harpsichord, theorbo (a type of lute), baroque violin and viola da gamba.
—Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
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Over that electronic polyphony, accompanists on period instruments, including the theorbo (a long-necked lute), improvised sometimes plangent, sometimes dissonant improvisations.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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Plus Chris Pine plays the lute for a moment, if that’s your thing.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 July 2022
-
The play centered on Talia, who wrote songs about her ex-boyfriends on the lute.
—Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022
-
Pine’s character seems to be a bard, shredding on a lute before shredding the air with a sword.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 20 July 2022
-
At first sight, the bandura looks like a cross between a lute and a guitar, with 60 strings across the front of its hollow wooden body.
—John Pana, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2022
-
Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his shed, sits down beneath the fiery midday sun, and starts to play.
—Reuters, ABC News, 6 June 2021
-
Similar to a lute, the oud is an ancient 11-stringed instrument from the Middle East and North Africa.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2023
-
Edgin avoids the thick of combat, preferring to play insipid songs on his lute.
—Ed Park, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
-
The band kept tweaking the arrangement, adding a mandolin, even a lute at one point, but Bains wasn’t quite satisfied.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2022
-
Do those Ren Faire girls think owning a lute is the same as having a personality?
—Kathleen Alcott, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
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Rafiullah Arman was a reporter for Afghan state TV, and enjoyed playing the traditional rubab lute for friends.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2021
-
Roustom, who plays the oud, a kind of lute mainly performed in Arab countries, is well-versed in both Middle Eastern and Western classical musical traditions.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 May 2021
-
One of them, Mani Nilchiani, would bring his setar, a traditional Iranian lute—and these dinner parties would often turn into intimate concerts.
—Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 18 Mar. 2022
-
Reflecting Sudan’s far-ranging musical heritage, Mr. Elkabli performed solo with an oud (a lute) or backed by a big-band orchestra, and his songs addressed love, folk song themes of heroism and chivalry, and politics.
—Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2021
-
The ensemble consists of music students from Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire who play on baroque-era style instruments including harpsichord, theorbo (a type of lute), baroque violin and viola da gamba.
—Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
-
Over that electronic polyphony, accompanists on period instruments, including the theorbo (a long-necked lute), improvised sometimes plangent, sometimes dissonant improvisations.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
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