How to Use orchestral in a Sentence

orchestral

adjective
  • Once upon a time, the combination of live orchestral film music with footage from those films was a novelty.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
  • Storch was known for blending hip-hop with cinematic, orchestral elements, and this track was no exception.
    Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Later, an orchestral medley of songs from iconic Japanese video games served as the soundtrack for athletes' entrances.
    Foster Klug, Chron, 23 July 2021
  • Later, an orchestral medley of songs from iconic Japanese video games served as the soundtrack for athletes’ entrances.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 23 July 2021
  • The orchestral score contains lush string textures, skittering woodwind licks and piquant dissonances.
    Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
  • An orchestral medley of songs from iconic Japanese video games served as the soundtrack for the parade of countries at the opening ceremony.
    Walsh Giarrusso, ajc, 23 July 2021
  • Kuperstein said audiences can expect to hear and see an orchestral performance that showcases classical music in a new way at the concert.
    Allana Haynes, baltimoresun.com, 30 July 2021
  • The orchestral pit is split: One foley artist is positioned on this stage, with the rest of the musicians performing remotely from inside the museum.
    Ashley Lee Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • Tonight Lawrence Welk led some orchestral tribute to America on the television set, Rudy nodding his head along to the music.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Then the orchestral mayhem cuts off abruptly; sopranos oscillate queasily between the notes A-flat and G; and the brutal rhythm resumes in the percussion.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the structure’s other end is a space for orchestral music.
    Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • 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

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