How to Use sitar in a Sentence

sitar

noun
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  • The tones and notes he was playing reminded Nair of the sitar.
    — Aaron Carnes, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The pings of the sitar were like a warning call for a video that was compelling every time MTV ran it.
    — Staff, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2021
  • The sitar music was too loud, the Australians were chatting away.
    — Christopher Bollen, WSJ, 26 July 2017
  • Despite the minor-key chorus of the original, there was a sense of hope (and sitar).
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2023
  • Tedeschi and Trucks take those slippery sitar lines, bends and drones and adapt them admirably for guitar.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 2 July 2018
  • Jack Antonoff gave you his vintage electric sitar when the album was finished.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Ravi Shankar admitted that his spine was twisted into a knot from years of sitting in front of that sitar.
    — John Densmore, latimes.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • She had just been accepted into a sitar class, a notable achievement for a student of her age.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • 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
  • Young women on streetcorners bring out sitars and synthesizers and big wooden drums, the better to get the crowd dancing the young men’s way.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 29 Dec. 2019
  • George Harrison flew in by helicopter for a sitar session with Ravi Shankar.
    — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The Beatles' guitarist first picked up the sitar during the filming of the group’s preposterous slapstick film Help! in 1965.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Fans could be watching a sitar and tabla performance one moment, then taking in searing black metal the next.
    — Chris Payne, Billboard, 26 June 2019
  • Hence electric sitar turning up on seven of the album's 14 tracks and one song drifting into Pink Floyd's corner of the galaxy.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The track is a pumping mélange of bright beats, rough guitar riffs, and hypnotic sitar lines, with Cardigan’s deeply emotive voice soaring over all.
    — Alex Blynn, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a keyboard player who also plays guitar, and a sitar player also plays bass.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2018
  • Ventriloquists, sitar players, and jugglers entertain the campsite, where the movie spends the most time.
    — Elle Carroll, Vulture, 8 June 2022
  • But for the finished song, the tape was slowed down: melting the edges of each note, making a Rickenbacker guitar sound like a sitar and muddying the ground below Lennon’s voice.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The strumming of a sitar, the pounding of tablas, the plucking of a violin — these were coming from the hospital, now the makeshift home of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • It’s an electric sitar-laden payback anthem in the shape of a ersatz thriller — soulful, but only by component.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • Hallelujah versions are Childers’ core band playing live in studio, while the Jubilee version adds strings, horns, and even dulcimer and sitar.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Students learned to play traditional Afghan string instruments like the rubab, sitar and sarod.
    — Zeina Karam, ajc, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Sankaram plays the accordion and sitar, the latter picked up at 19 after her Indian grandfather gave her the instrument as a gift.
    — Catherine Womack, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
  • The sitar sample plays delicately in the background, inspiring a new melodic synth lead bolstered by jazzy keys and a soft but driving rhythm.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The next included version is a sitar instrumental over which Harrison hums the melody.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Guitars will mix with a sitar, Pakistani flute, and nearly a dozen tabula (small drums similar in sound to bongos) for the performance.
    — Elizabeth Hanly, miamiherald, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Their gigs feature smooth chemistry and elaborate jams on guitar and a sitar wielded by Kurosawa’s brother, Ryu.
    — Hunter Walker, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The track features sitar accompaniment by Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar.
    — Kat Bouza, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Asia O’Hara raps over a worldly track that mixes Middle Eastern sitars and tropical marimbas with a classic hip-hop drum machine.
    — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 16 June 2018
  • Anoushka began studying the sitar under the instruction of her father at 9 years old and made her professional debut at 13.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023

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