How to Use stringed in a Sentence

stringed

adjective
  • Want to take home one of these four-stringed instruments or learn more about them?
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2021
  • While Noah prefers the stringed instruments, his sister loves to sing (and song write, too!).
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Also adept on drums and the stringed harp, Allen has made four solo albums since 2009.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • What’s going to happen if two people need the four-stringed banjo the same day?
    Joe Queenan, WSJ, 13 July 2017
  • Tiny stringed bulbs glitter on olive trees come nighttime.
    Bill Addison, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his shed, sits down beneath the fiery midday sun, and starts to play.
    Reuters, ABC News, 6 June 2021
  • Mother and Child may have been a preliminary design for a stringed piece.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2022
  • There are four hooks included to hang off the shelf in any spot to hang loofahs or other stringed bathtime accessories.
    Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The sprinkling of stars is conveyed by the tinkling of wind chimes, while the widespread interstellar gas and dust draw out sustained stringed notes.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Guitar aficionados should be warned that these shows include six-stringed instruments both smashed and set aflame.
    Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • This casual game is inspired by the Griswolds' Christmas light display: Players have to place cards with stringed light patterns in a way that earns them points.
    Annie O'Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The hour-and-a-half jam sessions comprise primarily ukuleles, along with stringed instruments such as the bass and slide guitar.
    Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Local artists transformed stringed instruments into works of art, which are up for auction to help raise money for the Chatfield Project.
    Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Folk music will be played on a traditional two-stringed violin, known as the erhu.
    Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
  • In another, a Kazakh man serenades a group of friends with a traditional two-stringed lute while sitting in a yurt.
    New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The stringed instrument first came into her life when her godmother gifted one when Bringi was 14.
    NBC News, 8 Dec. 2017
  • South Hill is a prime example of how the local scene has evolved: in 2014, Selin was a luthier, repairing and restoring stringed instruments, and was making cider at home.
    Jason Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Yes, the legendary McCabe’s Guitar Shop sells stringed instruments.
    Julia Wick, latimes.com, 8 June 2019
  • Modern readers are more intelligent, but just for the stragglers, a zither is a flat, stringed instrument, like a guitar with a shallower sound box and no neck.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
  • RedEye chatted with the harpist about her high-profile collaborations and why the stringed instrument is in such demand.
    Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, RedEye Chicago, 5 June 2018
  • Back for the third time, five-man rock and blues band the California Honeydrops has roots in the Sunny State and perform on stringed instruments, gutbucket bass, jug and washboard.
    Author: Lauren Ellenbecker, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Haken’s electric bowed stringed instruments producing the music of hip hop, rock, pop, jazz and other modern stylings.
    Philip Potempa, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The fiddle is considered the core instrument of the dance but other stringed instruments such as the guitar, banjo, bass and mandolin are also brought into play.
    Monte Whaley, The Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Popping up again Long associated with Hawaii, the precursor to the ukulele arrived on the islands in the 1880s with Portuguese immigrants who worked the sugar fields and played what was called a four-stringed machete.
    Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The car’s back window was ringed with stringed lights interspersed with purple spiders, a decoration from Halloween.
    Murat Oztaskin, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers compared their measurements from the Stradivari harp with other tree ring sequences measured from stringed instruments.
    Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • His stringed creations were finished to the highest standards and are today synonymous with quality and longevity in the classical music world.
    Rachel.maree.cormack@gmail.com, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The concert was the culmination of decades of work by Weinstein, a second-generation luthier -- a builder of stringed instruments.
    CBS News, 6 Dec. 2015
  • The camera pans from the spires of a temple to the interior, where 75-year-old Master Kong Nay, one of the few surviving virtuosos of the chapei dang veng, a Cambodian two-stringed guitar, strums his instrument.
    Diana Hubbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2021
  • Couples sat on park benches under the stars, listening to a Saudi musician playing the oud, a stringed instrument popular in the Middle East.
    Staff and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019

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