How to Use sitar in a Sentence

sitar

noun

• This is a showcase for the sitar, and the sitar earns it.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2022
• The tones and notes he was playing reminded Nair of the sitar.
  — Aaron Carnes, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
• The pings of the sitar were like a warning call for a video that was compelling every time MTV ran it.
  — Staff, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2021
• The sitar music was too loud, the Australians were chatting away.
  — Christopher Bollen, WSJ, 26 July 2017
• Despite the minor-key chorus of the original, there was a sense of hope (and sitar).
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023
• Tedeschi and Trucks take those slippery sitar lines, bends and drones and adapt them admirably for guitar.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 2 July 2018
• Jack Antonoff gave you his vintage electric sitar when the album was finished.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Jan. 2022
• Ravi Shankar admitted that his spine was twisted into a knot from years of sitting in front of that sitar.
  — John Densmore, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2017
• She had just been accepted into a sitar class, a notable achievement for a student of her age.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2018
• And all Kerr needs to sing the praises of Klay is a little background music: a guitar, banjo, sitar or sousaphone will do.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2018
• Young women on streetcorners bring out sitars and synthesizers and big wooden drums, the better to get the crowd dancing the young men’s way.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 29 Dec. 2019
• George Harrison flew in by helicopter for a sitar session with Ravi Shankar.
  — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
• The Beatles' guitarist first picked up the sitar during the filming of the group’s preposterous slapstick film Help! in 1965.
  — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
• Fans could be watching a sitar and tabla performance one moment, then taking in searing black metal the next.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 26 June 2019
• Hence electric sitar turning up on seven of the album's 14 tracks and one song drifting into Pink Floyd's corner of the galaxy.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
• The track is a pumping mélange of bright beats, rough guitar riffs, and hypnotic sitar lines, with Cardigan’s deeply emotive voice soaring over all.
  — Alex Blynn, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2020
• There’s a keyboard player who also plays guitar, and a sitar player also plays bass.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
• Ventriloquists, sitar players, and jugglers entertain the campsite, where the movie spends the most time.
  — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 8 June 2022
• But for the finished song, the tape was slowed down: melting the edges of each note, making a Rickenbacker guitar sound like a sitar and muddying the ground below Lennon’s voice.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• The strumming of a sitar, the pounding of tablas, the plucking of a violin — these were coming from the hospital, now the makeshift home of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• It’s an electric sitar-laden payback anthem in the shape of a ersatz thriller — soulful, but only by component.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• Hallelujah versions are Childers’ core band playing live in studio, while the Jubilee version adds strings, horns, and even dulcimer and sitar.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022
• Students learned to play traditional Afghan string instruments like the rubab, sitar and sarod.
  — Zeina Karam, ajc, 23 Aug. 2021
• Sankaram plays the accordion and sitar, the latter picked up at 19 after her Indian grandfather gave her the instrument as a gift.
  — Catherine Womack, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• The sitar sample plays delicately in the background, inspiring a new melodic synth lead bolstered by jazzy keys and a soft but driving rhythm.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2019
• The next included version is a sitar instrumental over which Harrison hums the melody.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
• Guitars will mix with a sitar, Pakistani flute, and nearly a dozen tabula (small drums similar in sound to bongos) for the performance.
  — Elizabeth Hanly, miamiherald, 31 Oct. 2017
• Their gigs feature smooth chemistry and elaborate jams on guitar and a sitar wielded by Kurosawa’s brother, Ryu.
  — Hunter Walker, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022
• The track features sitar accompaniment by Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar.
  — Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
• Asia O’Hara raps over a worldly track that mixes Middle Eastern sitars and tropical marimbas with a classic hip-hop drum machine.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 16 June 2018

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024