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Alphorn is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Alphorn in a sentence

Alphorn meaning

A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.

Using Alphorn

  • The main meaning on this page is: A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
  • In the example corpus, alphorn often appears in combinations such as: the alphorn, an alphorn.

Context around Alphorn

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

2013an 1×

Often after:

maker 1× melody 1×

Sentence patterns with Alphorn

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

1 2013an alphorn and a 1× like the alphorn or coiled 1× music for alphorn the military 1× of an alphorn but modern 1× the alphorn has no 1× the alphorn is constructed 1× times the alphorn maker would 1× to the alphorn 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

brahms wrote to 1× in former times 1× most prominently within 1× music for alphorn 1× rossini introduced the 1× surviving artifacts dating 1×

Common sentence endings:

alpins uses alphorns 1× area of switzerland 1× at the base 1× carved from wood 1× of southwest germany 1× the chromatic scale 1×

Words around Alphorn

Just before it in the word index:

alphonzo 2 alphonsus 11 alphonso 45 alphonsine 2 alphonse 63 alphons 3

Just after it in the word index:

alphv 7 alpilean 4 alpilles 3 alpin 4 alpina 5 alpine 545

Similar in corpus frequency:

aakash 12 aanholt 12 aardwolf 12 abadan 12 abati 12 abcc 12

Corpus analysis for Alphorn

  • In this selection, "alphorn" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, 2013an, maker and melody stand out and add context to how "alphorn" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 1 2013an alphorn and a and like the alphorn or coiled. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "alphorn" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with alphorn

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

Music for alphorn The military band of the French Chasseurs Alpins uses Alphorns. (13 words)

This content was published on Jan 1, 2013An alphorn and a cow, both miniatures and carved from wood. (18 words)

The alphorn has no lateral openings and therefore gives the pure natural harmonic series of the open pipe. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland. (40 words)

Surviving artifacts, dating back to as far as ca. AD 1400, include wooden labrophones in their stretched form, like the alphorn, or coiled versions, such as the '"Büchel" and the "Allgäuisches Waldhorn" or "Ackerhorn". (34 words)

Rossini introduced the "Ranz des Vaches" into his masterpiece William Tell, along with many other delightful melodies scattered throughout the opera in vocal and instrumental parts that are well-suited to the alphorn. (33 words)

Example sentences (9)

In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base.

The alphorn is constructed entirely of wood, even the mouthpiece, and was hand-crafted near the Black Forest region of southwest Germany.

This content was published on Jan 1, 2013An alphorn and a cow, both miniatures and carved from wood.

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

Most prominently within the alphorn's range, the 7th and 11th harmonics are particularly noticeable, because they fall between adjacent notes in the chromatic scale.

Music for alphorn The military band of the French Chasseurs Alpins uses Alphorns.

Rossini introduced the "Ranz des Vaches" into his masterpiece William Tell, along with many other delightful melodies scattered throughout the opera in vocal and instrumental parts that are well-suited to the alphorn.

Surviving artifacts, dating back to as far as ca. AD 1400, include wooden labrophones in their stretched form, like the alphorn, or coiled versions, such as the '"Büchel" and the "Allgäuisches Waldhorn" or "Ackerhorn".

The alphorn has no lateral openings and therefore gives the pure natural harmonic series of the open pipe.

Common combinations with alphorn

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "alphorn" in a sentence?
An example: "In former times the alphorn maker would find a tree bent at the base in the shape of an alphorn, but modern makers piece the wood together at the base." This page contains 9 example sentences with the word "alphorn" from authentic English texts.
What does "alphorn" mean?
Alphorn means: A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
How many example sentences with "alphorn" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 9 example sentences with "alphorn", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.