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Accordion is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Accordion meaning

  1. A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
  2. A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
  3. Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.

Synonyms of Accordion

piano accordion squeeze box free-reed instrument

Related words

Other words often associated with Accordion or its synonyms:

wind

Accordion vertaling naar Nederlands

accordeon harmonica

Using Accordion

  • The main meaning on this page is: A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds). | A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents. | Something, or set of things (concepts, etc), which can be expanded (or extended) and collapsed, like the musical instrument's pleated, folding bellows.
  • Useful related words include: piano accordion, squeeze box, free-reed instrument.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: accordeon, harmonica.
  • In the example corpus, accordion often appears in combinations such as: the accordion, an accordion, accordion and.

Context around Accordion

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

piano 3× button 2× fretless 1× typical 1× guitar 1× malfunctioning 1× virtuosa 1× valley 1× powerhouse 1×

Often after:

sometimes 2× player 2× different 1× book 1× violin 1× exquisite 1× hands 1× procedure 1× club 1× feature 1×

Sentence patterns with Accordion

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a malfunctioning accordion 1× and button accordion and keyboard 1× as an accordion procedure takes 1× both the accordion and piano 1× carrying his accordion and waving 1× five valley accordion club jam 1× gestures the accordion hands and 1× like an accordion squeezing together 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

an outstanding live 1× books that should 1× calan the band 1× centred around the 1× comprising upright bass 1× desantis has been 1×

Common sentence endings:

a malfunctioning accordion 1× accordion and piano 1× an accordion feature 1× and double bass 1× change in venue 1× designed for dancing 1×

Words around Accordion

Just before it in the word index:

accordingly 1.412 according 58.343 accorded 190 accordance 1.135 accord 824 accoramboni 2

Just after it in the word index:

accordionist 7 accordionists 2 accordions 20 accordius 2 accords 237 accorhotels 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

akure 120 aman 120 bagging 120 bartholomew 120 beachfront 120 belinda 120

Corpus analysis for Accordion

  • In this selection, "accordion" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, piano, button, fretless, sometimes, player and different stand out and add context to how "accordion" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a malfunctioning accordion and and button accordion and keyboard. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "accordion" sits close to words such as akure, aman and bagging, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with accordion

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

He was also a talented musician, playing both the accordion and piano. (12 words)

Centred around the powerhouse accordion player é, their music is designed for dancing. (13 words)

Five Valley Accordion Club jam/dance for October 22nd has a change in venue. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

From a liquidity standpoint, we ended the quarter with $41.5 million in cash and cash equivalents and $80 million available on our unsecured revolving credit facility with an additional $400 million potentially available pursuant to an accordion feature. (39 words)

He criticized the prosecution for treating incidents in Hunter’s four years of addiction ‘like an accordion’, squeezing together distant events to make them seem like they happened in a short space of time. (34 words)

DeSantis has been mocked for imitating Trump’s gestures (the accordion hands and the O-shaped thumb/index finger sign) but he’s been just as assiduous in adopting Trump’s moral indecency. (33 words)

Example sentences (20)

Instruments used are: acoustic guitar (usually six strings, but sometimes seven strings), electric or acoustic bass (sometimes fretless), accordion (sometimes piano accordion, sometimes button accordion), and sometimes some percussion is used.

Right-hand manual systems A Weltmeister piano accordion Different systems exist for the right-hand manual of an accordion, which is normally used for playing the melody.

The first pages in Adolph Müller's accordion book The musician Adolph Müller described a great variety of instruments in his 1833 book, Schule für Accordion.

The most typical accordion is the piano accordion, which is used for many musical genres.

An outstanding live act, audiences can expect high energy mayhem involving vocals, guitar, accordion, violin and double bass.

Books that should stand upright and confident lie without strength in their spines until they fall down like a malfunctioning accordion.

Calan the band – whose virtuosa accordion player and champion clog dancer Bethan Rhiannon is from Torfaen – have a special year lined up.

Comprising upright bass, a honky tonk pianist, who also played trumpet and accordion, exquisite pedal steel, second guitar and drums, the Blue Drifters raised Crockett’s already astonishing voice to near divine.

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DeSantis has been mocked for imitating Trump’s gestures (the accordion hands and the O-shaped thumb/index finger sign) but he’s been just as assiduous in adopting Trump’s moral indecency.

Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG), which is known as an 'accordion procedure', takes just 90 minutes with patients able to leave hospital later the same day.

Five Valley Accordion Club jam/dance for October 22nd has a change in venue.

From a liquidity standpoint, we ended the quarter with $41.5 million in cash and cash equivalents and $80 million available on our unsecured revolving credit facility with an additional $400 million potentially available pursuant to an accordion feature.

He was also a talented musician, playing both the accordion and piano.

Siblings from Sligo, Harpist Elsa Kelly and button accordion and keyboard player Jos Kelly will perform on Wednesday 17 May, 1.10pm.

We were surprised when Dud walked into the auditorium carrying his accordion and waving to the crowd.

Centred around the powerhouse accordion player é, their music is designed for dancing.

For Yankovic, who is also a fan of polka and accordion music, to poke fun is to love.

He criticized the prosecution for treating incidents in Hunter’s four years of addiction ‘like an accordion’, squeezing together distant events to make them seem like they happened in a short space of time.

I had written it entirely for my own amusement, to show off my abilities on an accordion I bought at a local music shop.

Music was a cornerstone of George’s life he was a talented musician who could play the accordion, guitar, and banjo.

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Common combinations with accordion

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "accordion" in a sentence?
An example: "Instruments used are: acoustic guitar (usually six strings, but sometimes seven strings), electric or acoustic bass (sometimes fretless), accordion (sometimes piano accordion, sometimes button accordion), and sometimes some percussion is used." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "accordion" from authentic English texts.
What does "accordion" mean?
Accordion means: A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
What are synonyms of "accordion"?
Common synonyms of "accordion" include: piano accordion, squeeze box, free-reed instrument.
What is "accordion" in Dutch?
"accordion" translates to Dutch as: accordeon, harmonica.
How many example sentences with "accordion" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "accordion", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.