How to Use tuba in a Sentence

tuba

noun

• Jill plays the oboe, Janet the piano and sax, Jay the baritone and Jeff the tuba.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2018
• The drag queen had a finger wave in her hair and a tuba on her lap.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022
• Players sought to throw the bags in the hole of the tuba-like instrument.
  — Howard Ludwig, Daily Southtown, 8 May 2018
• The tuba player could miss his block and still Fields would find his way to the end zone.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
• Her father, who played the tuba in high school, loved the marching bands.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2022
• Since then, concerts have cropped up by tuba fans across the globe.
  — oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2021
• Then, the trumpet solos began and a tuba pumped the bass.
  — Griselda Flores, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2022
• The source of the roar was Willie Clark’s tuba — nearly the size of a harp and even more formidable.
  — Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2021
• The son of a tuba player, Benitez left the hills of Sinaloa to settle in Compton.
  — Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 Sep. 2017
• How do the emissions from the enormous bell of a tuba compare with a straight-shooting flute?
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 June 2020
• The band is offering a reward for the return of the tuba or for anonymous tips.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Brendan is one of only three tuba players in the All State Band.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 14 Oct. 2021
• Coe was a basketball player and number one char with her tuba in the bad at school.
  — CBS News, 11 July 2017
• But the tuba – namely the circular kind called a sousaphone – is big.
  — Michelle Krupa, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• With the Excelsior Band will be Hall’s grandson, James, who also plays the tuba.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 21 May 2021
• Shaquille Jones played tuba in the marching band at Tennessee.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 7 Apr. 2015
• If the stars align and Providence’s punk rock marching band, the What Cheer? Brigade are playing during your trip, please, for the love of the tuba, do not miss it.
  — Julia Sherman, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018
• Bassist and tuba man Ben Jaffe has been running the band since 1993, taking the reins from his late father, Allan, who founded the project.
  — Bret Saunders, The Know, 2 Nov. 2019
• Then came a small band, blaring out an anthem with four trumpets, a tuba, cymbals, and two drums.
  — David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
• But on a recent day after lunch, the school band started to warm up under a covered outdoor area, the notes from the tuba drifting across the quad.
  — Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2021
• Both of Northcut’s parents perform in the orchestra; his father plays the tuba and his mother plays the flute.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• The 78th season of the South Holland Municipal Band also is my first playing tuba in the group.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2021
• What’s the audience for YouTube videos of people playing tuba?
  — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2018
• Rather, it’s between a tuba-playing, Elvish-speaking high school über-nerd and a girl who looks like his grandmother.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• Cox made an expansive landscape, rich with color and depth — a special shout-out to Stephen Dumaine, whose steady tuba was the glue.
  — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
• Last month, a tuba player blew velvety notes across Bell Street Park while two people played giant chess.
  — Daniel Beekman, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018
• Madison was mourned and remembered as a bright girl who loved playing basketball and the tuba.
  — Melissa Chan, Time, 12 July 2017
• Gone were the legato accompaniments from the group of saxophones, as were the slinking solos from the tuba in Paris.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2021
• The first choice is to bring a chair and sit on the front lawn of The Hickories while listening to music from Solid Brass, a group made up of four trumpets, four trombones, a horn and a tuba.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 28 June 2021
• An annual antiabortion protest marched along just off-camera, complete with a full band with bagpipes and a tuba.
  — Richard Morgan, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024