How to Use sousaphone in a Sentence

sousaphone

noun

• Even the guy wearing a 50-pound sousaphone glides about the stage with poise.
  — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
• There’s the sousaphone player from Ohio State who dots the ‘i’ in the marching band’s famed pregame routine.
  — J. Brady McCollough Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
• The 17-year-old senior was a sousaphone player in the marching band.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Drummer Phelps and sousaphone player Gearl Stephens are the longest-tenured members.
  — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2019
• Allan managed the artists and occasionally picked up his sousaphone and played with the band.
  — Jeanie Riess, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
• And the old-timey feel of the event, with young musicians in tasseled hats and spangly shorts, and the sousaphone bell glinting in the sun, were all intentional.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• The sonorous rumble of a sousaphone laid down the low end, while cymbals, hi-hats, snare drums and bass drum offered the dynamic beats that elevate dance-floor denizens like a drug.
  — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
• Passing drivers honked in support as a musician blew tunes on a bright pink sousaphone.
  — Janie Har, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2021
• The rattling kitchen implements in the Karpman piece aren’t even the noisiest element; not when a sousaphone rears up for a few bars elsewhere in the concert.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2021
• Songs in Guadeloupean Creole backed by blues guitar and sousaphone.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Pete’s sousaphone often played a crucial role in the group’s music, serving as both rhythmic and melodic core.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2021
• Jaffe's sousaphone tuba, manufactured by Mario Corso, is boldly marked with the name Preservation Hall on the bell.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Instead, the Alabama and Ohio State bands were shown on video boards playing school fight songs — the senior sousaphone player still dotted the I, only remotely.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2021
• Dozens of monochromatically clad dancers joined Bey, along with a drumline with sousaphone and trombone players.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 7 May 2018
• Six years later, Orchestra Noir is comprised of 50 pieces, with the addition of a few non-traditional elements, such as the sousaphone (a strap-on tuba), the drums, and the saxophone.
  — al, 7 May 2022
• Purrazzo played piano and percussive instruments while Wcislo played tuba and sousaphone and was also a choir member.
  — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 7 Mar. 2018
• Featuring two drummers, two trumpeters, two trombonists, a saxophonist and the tuba-like sousaphone, this funk and hip-hop savvy group salutes and extends the brass band tradition with infectious verve.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022
• One of the Kennedy Center’s stranger holiday traditions finds up to 200 tuba, euphonium and sousaphone players joining forces for a brassy and very merry concert of seasonal songs.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
• In an annual tradition that was started 49 years ago in New York and has since expanded across the country, low brass (tuba, sousaphone and euphonium) players of all ages are welcome to join in the merriment of Tuba Christmas.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• Christmas carols will be performed by over 200 tuba, sousaphone and euphonium players.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 15 Dec. 2022
• Simpler emotionally but just as potent visually is a picture of a sousaphone’s shiny bell, which refracts a marching band musician’s uniform into an abstract red swirl.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• A sousaphone plays mournfully in its lowest register, while a man whistles robin calls, and two people chat conspiratorially.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
• The University of Akron’s School of Music will feature summer favorites performed by dozens of tuba, sousaphone, baritone and euphonium musicians from the region, not just those associated with the university.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 15 June 2021

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024