How to Use saxophone in a Sentence

saxophone

noun

• In a group, the saxophone takes plays the lyrical part of the song.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
• The George Michael saxophone — those kinds of moments — were just hitting the nail on the head.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2023
• The 43-year-old has a black belt in judo and also plays the saxophone.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2021
• Jake Clemons, the group’s saxophone player, missed the gig due to Covid but Ed Manion filled in for the evening.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
• Otha Stokes came in on saxophone, who Skip played with in the Ohio Hustlers.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
• The sounds of worms and microorganisms at work emerged as the honking peals of a saxophone.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• During the video, Bushell plays the guitar, bass, keyboards, the saxophone, the güiro, and, for a few seconds, the drums.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2021
• In 1965, Sanders joined Coltrane’s group on tenor saxophone.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2022
• He was obsessed with jazz from a young age, entranced by the saxophone of Earl Bostic and the drums of Chico Hamilton.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• Marsalis took the lead on a trio of pieces, playing alto saxophone.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• In preparation for his role, the actor spent about a year and a half learning to play the saxophone.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• And Chicago's titan of the tenor saxophone isn't done yet.
  — Bill Dahl, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2018
• The song was the perfect mood for the SNL stage, complete with a saxophone solo and backup singers.
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 6 Oct. 2019
• Apart from the town’s skyline, the citadel, and the rocks behind, this town along the Meuse River is the birthplace of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
  — Keith Ladzinski, National Geographic, 28 July 2020
• His father played the clarinet and saxophone in big bands.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• Rose was an avid skater and skier who also played the saxophone.
  — Errin Haines Whack, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2018
• The ringleader for the band (Sean Nowell), who plays saxophone, is a Vestavia Hills grad.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 1 Mar. 2021
• The train has become a building, and Glass makes space for a wailing saxophone.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Mikal Cronin also played saxophone and cowrote the title track with Segall.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2022
• Alec leads the group, with his skillful saxophone work in the album’s seven songs.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2021
• Love wore a sparkly black suit to wail co-lead on the song with Cher — and Santa Claus even popped up to play a saxophone solo.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 Nov. 2023
• The truth is that dance music doesn't have enough saxophone solos.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2021
• Having said his piece, Chung leaves to practice the saxophone.
  — NBC News, 15 Dec. 2020
• Among those many things, of course, was playing saxophone.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
• For the jazz titan Sonny Rollins, the saxophone was a means to pierce the veil of indifference and outright hate.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
• McHugh worked as a short order cook in high school, but went to college on a scholarship to study the saxophone.
  — CBS News, 20 July 2019
• Jayson is a sophomore at Grand Army and an avid jazz saxophone player.
  — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 16 Oct. 2020
• Clemons, by the way, uses his uncle’s saxophone on stage.
  — Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
• Jazz saxophone giant John Coltrane briefly lived with Ra and his band at their Philadelphia commune in the late 1950s.
  — George Varga, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
• Gaga, however, Gaga-fies it, joyfully vamping all over the melody as if she’s morphed into a saxophone.
  — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Jan 2025