How to Use sextet in a Sentence

sextet

noun
  • What a joy it's been to get to know this sextet of Utah queens.
    Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The concert began with a sextet, the one by Brahms in G major, Op.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Maybe there are drinks, and before long someone breaks out the Brahms sextets.
    Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 12 May 2018
  • That Tukes was fronting a sextet on the Green Mill’s compact stage added to the sonic and visual impact of the event.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The two-hour-plus show was an early celebration for the sextet, with not a small amount of tongue in cheek.
    Gary Graff, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The all-female jazz sextet Artemis performs at 9:30 pm.
    Gary Graff, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Luxe cabin to shame an Audi A3, the best-sounding engine of the sextet, swanky looks.
    Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Telebit: The sextet opened up concerts for Muse in Colombia with good reason.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The first episode sets up the premise for this sextet of singletons and their co-dependency.
    Whitney Friedlander, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The Schoenberg sextet, an early work in a lush, late-Romantic vein, was written in the same decade as Brahms’s Op.
    Thomas May, The Seattle Times, 25 June 2017
  • Giving back to the community is also a trait which runs through the psyche of this sextet.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
  • The ensemble continued to grow to its present-day sextet.
    Kathy Cichon, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2021
  • Harmony takes for its subject the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of singers formed in Berlin at the end of the 1920s, who toured the world until the Nazi regime turned on the group.
    Vulture, 13 Nov. 2023
  • At Wednesday night’s performance, the sextet started out playing to a mixed house in the 3,000-seat Civic Theatre.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2023
  • The sextet discussed the origins of their projects, hot-button debates in the doc community and more.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Working with a unique sextet that included bassist Stephan Crump, tubaist...
    Martin Johnson, WSJ, 4 May 2020
  • Then there’s the show’s treatment of the characters who are in the sextet’s orbit but not directly involved with their work.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Davis, a slide trombone player, performs with Chick Corea's sextet, Origin, and leads his own group.
    Brittany Nader, cleveland.com, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Each of that sextet needed a breakout moment to remain alive.
    J.f., The Economist, 31 July 2019
  • But this sextet may be the last wave of that late 2010s ballot flush, as future years are looking sparser in terms of providing new Hall of Famers.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 19 July 2019
  • Kandle formed and gigged with a Hawaiian guitar sextet, the Kohala Girls.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Little about the concert suggested the sextet might soon cease touring.
    Bob Gendron, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2017
  • The sextet from Lubbock leans into its rural West Texas roots of country and Americana.
    Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Bluegrass melds with other genres in the music of this Grammy Award-winning sextet.
    David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 19 June 2019
  • The sextet was formed out of contestants on last year’s season of Produce 101, which also produced Wanna One.
    Tamar Herman, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2018
  • For the musical message matters most, and that’s where Thimes made her impact, leading a robust sextet.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The conversation whipped from deeply funny to deadly serious, as the sextet doled out a mix of stories and advice.
    Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022
  • The Art Ensemble of Chicago, now a sextet, continues to perform.
    Martin Johnson, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2018
  • Considering that the last Oscar winners for best actor and supporting actor first appeared on this roundtable, there’s a strong chance the best is yet to come for this starry sextet.
    Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The sextet’s second movement offers an upbeat, cheerful mood, with quick intervals and staccato sections.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2024

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