Tuba

//ˈtu.bə//

"Tuba" in a Sentence (16 examples)

If I could only play the tuba half as well as you, I'd be very happy.

Tom told Mary to practice her tuba somewhere else.

I've never played the tuba.

Tom plays tuba in the school band.

Tom used to play the tuba.

You're very good at playing the tuba, aren't you?

I wish I could play the tuba as well as Tom.

Didn't you know Tom could play the tuba?

I wonder whether Tom really knows how to play the tuba.

I wonder if Tom really knows how to play the tuba.

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One version of the large tuba, popular in marching bands, is called a sousaphone in honor of bandsman John Philip Sousa.

Compared with skulls of darwini, skulls of andium are smaller with shorter tooth rows (fig. 13), have less globular bullae that taper more gradually to the tubae, and a shorter, proportionately narrower rostrum with nasals usually relatively blunt behind and seldom projecting posteriorly far behind the premaxillae (pl. 11).

From the eleventh century onwards, the trumpets, which had till then been modelled on the Roman tubae with their straightforward and somewhat rough sound, began to grow longer and thinner as their bells widened.

This depicts trumpet blowing angels gripping instruments, of the Roman tubae variety, halfway down with the right hand, the left hand covering their mouth and the mouthpiece.

As he drew nearer to Worms, he heard the brassy blare of Roman tubae from the ruddy sandstone walls of the city.

Meronyms: Ansagan, Camp Four, Camp One, Camp Three, Nangalisan, Poblacion, San Pascual, Tabaan Norte, Tadiangan, Taloy Norte, Taloy Sur, Twin Peaks — barangays of Tuba

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