Trombone

//ˌtɹɑmˈboʊn//

"Trombone" in a Sentence (18 examples)

You're mistaken. He plays bass, not trombone.

I've always wanted to play the trombone.

Tom didn't start to play the trombone until he was twenty.

Tom began trombone lessons when he was twelve years old.

I used to play the trombone.

I didn't know Tom could play the trombone so well.

I played the trombone when I was younger.

Tom plays the trombone.

I had no idea you knew how to play the trombone.

I heard you bought a new trombone.

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Jim plays the trombone very well.

This trombone is very expensive.

Horns, trumpets, and trombones, both soloistically and sectionally, became central to the orchestral concept... His highly subtle orchestration elevates woodwinds, more often scored soloistically than sectionally.

Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.

The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.

The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.

[…] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]

He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]

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