How to Use saxophone in a Sentence

saxophone

noun
Definition of saxophonenext
  • The George Michael saxophone — those kinds of moments — were just hitting the nail on the head.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2023
  • Jake Clemons, the group’s saxophone player, missed the gig due to Covid but Ed Manion filled in for the evening.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Otha Stokes came in on saxophone, who Skip played with in the Ohio Hustlers.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
  • The sounds of worms and microorganisms at work emerged as the honking peals of a saxophone.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In 1965, Sanders joined Coltrane’s group on tenor saxophone.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Mikal Cronin also played saxophone and cowrote the title track with Segall.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Love wore a sparkly black suit to wail co-lead on the song with Cher — and Santa Claus even popped up to play a saxophone solo.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 30 Nov. 2023
  • For the jazz titan Sonny Rollins, the saxophone was a means to pierce the veil of indifference and outright hate.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Clemons, by the way, uses his uncle’s saxophone on stage.
    — Chris Jordan, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Alessandra’s cousin played the saxophone while guests waited for the service to begin.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Lewis’s saxophone adds a bold voice to what the trio has done previously.
    — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Both those parts were written by Evan Smith, who’s one of our saxophone players.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
  • When Dean loses his position as first chair saxophone in the school band, Bill lays the pressure on him to earn it back.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 17 Jan. 2022
  • And it was paired with Edgar Winter playing the saxophone, where my voice and his horn sort of played together.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Martin spent the set switching among the saxophone, synths, the vocoder and doing live production.
    — Nereya Otieno, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
  • He was bested by a fiendish reed instrument called the saxophone.
    — Bo Emerson, ajc, 20 July 2022
  • His keening alto saxophone sounds steeped in the ages — and eager to go beyond them.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Proudfoot: What guided the look of the movie was the very real practice of putting a lightbulb down a saxophone, or anything with valves, to see if there’s a leak.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Victoria McCoy, a 17-year-old from Peabody who plays the saxophone, said the camp is a step outside her comfort zone.
    — Maeve Lawler, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • Dorrance breaks out to the vibratory sounds of the saxophone, played by Matt Parker.
    — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • The song contains the fundamental power of human performance and singing, like the raw sounds of the drums and saxophone.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Duranguense, known by its mix of saxophone, keyboard, and tambora, peaked in the mid-2000s.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Jason has even tapped into his old jazz band roots, breaking out his famous saxophone skills to play with the high school band.
    — Ashley Bastock, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2023
  • My good friend, an 18-year-old saxophone protege, was shot to death while practicing, along with hundreds of others in the city.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The sound of saxophone rang throughout the entire south end of the festival grounds as couples near the outskirts of the crowd tangoed together.
    — Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2022
  • There’s the time Murray drove an Oakland taxi cab around so its driver could practice saxophone in the backseat.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The song is pulled together by — what else? — the lonesome moan of a saxophone, provided by P.E.’s Benjamin Jaffe.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Ellington’s 1963 version with John Coltrane on saxophone will be played at my funeral if my kids don’t botch it.
    — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2022
  • And then, at 11 p.m., a saxophone player led the group across Madison Avenue for an after-party in the bride’s family home.
    — Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 27 June 2024
  • One of the album’s finest moments comes late in the song, when what sounds like a frog belching through a saxophone enters out of nowhere, bolstering the song’s main rhythm and dispelling any cynicism in Gabriel’s lyrics.
    — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 24 June 2024

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