How to Use sax in a Sentence

sax

noun

• Jill plays the oboe, Janet the piano and sax, Jay the baritone and Jeff the tuba.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
• The day Noise closed, Daniel Brown put his sax in a case and did not open it for five months.
  — Sarah Feldberg, Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2020
• And from the sax player to the drummer, that band was a knockout.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
• Or sink a putt while Kenny G plays sax right in your face.
  — Marc Silver, Washington Post, 7 July 2019
• Because of the size of the band, Ed, who is a great sax player, was able to cover for Jake.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2023
• The one wondering whether Bach can or should be played on sax.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Pat Thomas bangs on the piano with his fists and Seymour Wright blares through his sax like a fire alarm.
  — Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
• Leave it 2 ??2 hit those riffs like a boss & feature a female sax soloist.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 17 Dec. 2016
• One of the members even puts down his sax to wail a few songs with bell-like clarity.
  — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
• The world should know Murray is still champion of the tenor sax and bass clarinet.
  — Brett Saunders, The Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2024
• Smooth-jazz sax man Najee will appear Aug. 5 in a show to be recorded live.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 18 Feb. 2020
• Dexter took up the alto sax at 14, switching at 15 to the tenor that his mother bought him to fit his tall frame.
  — Clifford Thompson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
• It’s set to the unmistakable sax of an ’80s-sitcom theme.
  — Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
• Lee played clarinet and sax and was teaching himself the banjo.
  — courant.com, 23 July 2019
• Nice sax -- which is also present and well played on several tracks.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 6 Oct. 2019
• On Saturday, the Truckers had sax and trumpet players on a few songs, a nifty nod to Shoals roots.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 16 May 2022
• At Poway High, Alexander plays alto sax in the jazz and concert bands and is the first student with autism to play all four years in the marching band.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• At 29, sax and flute player Lloyd had a breakout year for the ages, establishing him a one of jazz’s true stars.
  — Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
• His lineup: bass, drums, trumpet, trombone, sax — with a twist.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• Bechet’s mastery of the soprano sax brought the instrument into the fold.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 22 Mar. 2017
• The New Orleans native had that sultry sax sound rock bands wanted.
  — Sean Elder, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2015
• Our tour guide plays us an excerpt of an untitled, sax-forward jazz piece with Prince on keys.
  — Minna Zhou, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2017
• The track itself evokes the Rolling Stones swagger crisscrossed with Morphine’s sultry sax.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 7 July 2022
• Rod Stewart's voice drifts out of the garage speaker, John Coltrane's alto sax from a trailer window.
  — David Diamond, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
• What many remember most from the 1992 campaign is Bill Clinton’s sax.
  — Philip M. Napoli, Wired, 2 July 2020
• Allen is lithe and sinewy and, in a Sun Ra T-shirt and cap, didn’t seem much changed from the guy on sax in the seventies or eighties, blowing and chanting and dancing.
  — Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• The acoustics of the room amplify the breathy cacophony blowing from the four saxes on stage.
  — Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Tonight that riff comes out of the massive baritone sax of Clare Daly, the fairy godmother of saxophonists, who blows with the fury of a tempest.
  — Joshua David Stein, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2015
• And the club is having one of its biggest weekends of the year Aug. 2-3, with the return of Rahsaanathon, two nights of music in honor of the legendary sax man who gave the club its name.
  — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2019
• But Jack Cooper’s guitar and Jeff Tobias’s sax didn’t duel during the 55-minute set.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 28 Feb 2025