How to Use piccolo in a Sentence

piccolo

noun

• If the Knights take the court, Craig wants to be in the stands, playing flute or piccolo with the band.
  — Annie Martin, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• The kid standing by your locker with a piccolo while the jocks and hipsters grab all the dates and glory.
  — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• That means not just the two flutes, but also just the piccolo player, and the harp player, and the tympani player and all the brass.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 27 Apr. 2018
• Lebermann craved a piccolo sound on the John Philip Sousa marches that were crowd favorites.
  — Michael Corcoran, ExpressNews.com, 29 Apr. 2020
• My mom, who started playing piccolo in the band in 2019, drove in from eastern Long Island.
  — Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2020
• In the last movement, descending scales passed between the harp and piccolo fit together like the teeth of a zipper.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Alyssa Alexander, who graduated from Ocoee in 2014, played the flute, piccolo, and piano during her time in the band.
  — Nathaniel Marrero, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• Inside are piles of shrill and whining piccolo petes, neon flame-spouting blazing rebels and mounds of sparklers.
  — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 3 July 2017
• Mortimore had to stand against a wall and twist into shapes not conducive to piccolo-playing.
  — Calli McMurray, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• The third movement lacked the ultimate in screeching piccolo and whooping horns.
  — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2018
• And Daniel Sun, who loves classical music, plays piano, flute and piccolo.
  — Claudia Rowe, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
• Richter is an active flute and piccolo player in the Milwaukee and Chicago areas.
  — Elgin Courier-News, 4 Aug. 2017
• For 18-year-old freshman and piccolo player Eboni Singletary, performing in that parade is just the cherry on the cake.
  — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Even a piccolo, the smallest instrument in an orchestra, won’t fit in your pocket.
  — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• Musicians in the group actually play a range of instruments in the flute family, including the piccolo as well as the alto, bass and the C-flute.
  — Barbara Dargis, Daily Southtown, 3 Mar. 2018
• Scored for piano, violin, cello, clarinet, and flute/piccolo, the work’s first movement lurked.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• His repertoire expanded to include the piccolo and English horn.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 6 Apr. 2023
• Linda Lacey, 73, was excited to see the large turnout, mainly because her 14-year-old granddaughter, who starts at the high school Monday, will be playing piccolo in the band before Biden speaks.
  — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• It’s the violette that provides top notes, a piccolo fluttering around the palate, a flavor that’s at once delicate and powerful.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
• His good friend Martayvia, who plays piccolo, has become a sister figure to him, despite some initial tension.
  — Candace McDuffie, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2022
• The sisters also extended their range of instruments — besides the piano, Marta learned the trumpet, Mary the clarinet and saxophone and Maggy the flute and piccolo.
  — Lauren Caruba, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2018
• After the doumbek — a Middle Eastern hand drum — taps a syncopated groove in the first movement, the piccolo spins out a traditional-sounding tune, while the harp strums lush harmonies.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Try the filter, piccolo latte, or cappuccino; non-coffee-drinkers, the hot chocolate or chai latte.
  — Lindsey Tramuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2018
• But there was no question where the musical energy was coming from, the piccolo lines setting the terms of discussion for motifs the orchestra would embrace.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
• Their unique sound comes from bringing together bass, alto, C flutes, piccolo and Native American flutes.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 28 July 2022
• Perhaps the most recorded woodwind player in show business history, Cipriano played soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones, all the clarinets and flutes, the oboe and bass oboe, the piccolo and the English horn.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2022
• Metallic percussion added pings to the texture, almost like stars twinkling, and the piccolo — eerily played by Lily Josefsberg — sounded a quiet melody that oscillated around three or four notes.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• These students may not have access to piccolo lessons, excursions to the Galapagos Islands, or advanced placement courses that can boost a student’s chance of admission.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
• But too much of the orchestration — with lots of brass, shrieking piccolo, percussion and even piano treated percussively — was totally out of scale with the bassoon.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2020
• And the customary piccolo tremolo that used to run above the crowd noise of every comedy club—the excess laughter of the one drunk and slightly hysterical patron—had no purchase or possibility here.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024