How to Use violin in a Sentence

violin

noun
  • My father played the violin and people would just stop in the room.
    Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • One of the first and only directions [Nolan] gave me was to use the violin.
    David Betancourt, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • This included hallways, next to the violins, in the middle of the horn section and on the opera singers.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
  • And all the horn lines on our final version are based on that violin line.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2022
  • And Jessie, now 36, has played violin in the theater’s orchestras and coached the kids on their songs.
    Zachary Pincus-Roth, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The late priest is known for his great faith, humility and love of the violin.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2021
  • The fliers’ flute can barely be heard over the clash of violins, drums and guitars below.
    Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Her son rises at 5:30 to read and play the violin beside her.
    Imani Perry Janina Edwards Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • His sister was a singer and his brother played the violin.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Suddenly, from one of the rooms, a cello and violin could be heard.
    Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The duo will perform violin sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy and Franck.
    Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2024
  • He was born in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1886 and learned to play the piano and violin as a child.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Aves, the same way knowing how to place your fingers on a violin gives you a head start on the cello, the lute, and the electric guitar.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The playback person responds to the violin soloist, as does the violinist with the tape.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But two weeks before the big day, Ray opens his violin case to find only a white sneaker.
    Stephanie Merry, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The violins indeed soared toward the sun, then veered into seething brass.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The crowd gathered around the podium set in front of the gray building as a violin quartet played somber string music.
    Jenna Smith, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Casey was named after St. Francis Solanus, who lived in the 17th century and who, like Casey, loved to play the violin.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 12 Nov. 2021
  • His mother, Sheneen McClain, said her son was a kind soul who loved to play the violin.
    CBS News, 2 Sep. 2021
  • As its core, his theme is played by the violin in a very simple, intimate way with six notes.
    Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • Fitted with a half-sized rental violin, the young Kevin quickly took to the instrument.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Gillis played her violin for a recording as El Sistema students from around the world played along.
    Brooke Edwards, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
  • So, too, the slackness that can sometimes be detected in the first violins.
    David Allen, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Recently, in his late 60s, my dad decided to learn how to play the violin.
    Longreads, 27 Jan. 2023
  • But that art will be made alongside other music, other art, not stacked on top of the corpses of old violins.
    Linda Holmes, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • One of the world's biggest competitions for the violin has a new winner.
    The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Gil Shaham’s world premiere of a new work for violin for him by Scott Wheeler.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Brinker, of Palms Middle School, started playing the violin in fourth grade.
    Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
  • And Texas football players in the fourth and fifth grade were not necessarily respectful of a scrawny kid with a violin.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Guitar, piano, flute, lute, violin, sax, orchestra, rock band, a cappella.
    Sigrid Nunez, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2024

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