Trombone is an English word with synonyms like brass. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Trombone meaning
- A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
- The common European bittern.
- A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
Synonyms of Trombone
Using Trombone
- The main meaning on this page is: A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭). | The common European bittern. | A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
- Useful related words include: brass, brass instrument.
- In the example corpus, trombone often appears in combinations such as: the trombone, and trombone, trombone and.
Context around Trombone
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trombone
- In this selection, "trombone" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bass, aka, band, shorty, concerto and player stand out and add context to how "trombone" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1900s the trombone was usually and a little trombone. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trombone" sits close to words such as actionable, adopts and airwaves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trombone
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Knight told him to back away and play a little trombone. (11 words)
New Orleans meets New Orleans in this song by Trombone Shorty. (11 words)
A person who plays the trombone is called a trombonist or trombone player. (13 words)
Use of the trombone in jazz further In the Dixieland era of jazz in the 1900s the trombone was usually present in " Dixie " groups to assist in the bass or tuba player's job of outlining the chords for the other instruments to improvise over. (45 words)
Junior Ben Redding, who plays mellophone in marching band, French horn in concert band and trombone in jazz band, said performing at state “in this big stadium in front of this amazing audience” is one of the reason students return to march each year. (44 words)
Last year members of Skipton Music were dazzled by the trumpet quartet Solus Ensemble, but the four virtuosi of Bones Apart made a convincing case that a trombone quartet can produce an equally varied and fleet-footed programme. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
And on Sunday’s final set, always closed by Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Batiste turned up again to play with his old friend Troy Andrews (aka Trombone Shorty).
A person who plays the trombone is called a trombonist or trombone player.
As the trombone has few works dating back to the classical period, his concerto is often highlighted by the trombone community.
A typical concert band trombone section consists of two tenor trombones and one bass trombone, but using multiple players per part is common practice, especially in public school settings.
Queisser almost single-handedly helped to reestablish the reputation of the trombone in Germany and began a tradition in trombone playing that is still practised there today.
The giant Octav-Posaun / double bass trombone / contra-bass trombone in the style of the those made in 16th/17th centuries is represented by only a few existing instruments.
The use of alto clef is usually confined to orchestral first trombone parts, with the second trombone part written in tenor clef and the third (bass) part in bass clef.
Use of the trombone in jazz further In the Dixieland era of jazz in the 1900s the trombone was usually present in " Dixie " groups to assist in the bass or tuba player's job of outlining the chords for the other instruments to improvise over.
With the rise of recorded music and music schools, orchestral trombone sections around the world began to have a more consistent idea of a standard trombone sound.
Almost three decades later, Alessi asked the widely loved jazz keyboardist and composer Chick Corea, who was enmeshed with classical music throughout his life, to create a trombone concerto.
Dayes spent his teens as part of the United Vibrations quartet alongside two of his brothers – Ahmad on trombone, Kareem on bass – and saxophonist Wayne Francis.
Her reading the sheet of paper is accompanied by a motif of muted trumpets and a trombone; tubular bells, quietly embedded in each scene’s climax, suggest a clock striking, and time running out.
In the first part of the audition process, Rachel recorded herself playing Alexandre Guilmant's 'Morceau Symphonique' and 'Sonatina for Trombone and Piano' by Serocki, and sent it off to the college.
Junior Ben Redding, who plays mellophone in marching band, French horn in concert band and trombone in jazz band, said performing at state “in this big stadium in front of this amazing audience” is one of the reason students return to march each year.
Knight told him to back away and play a little trombone.
Last year members of Skipton Music were dazzled by the trumpet quartet Solus Ensemble, but the four virtuosi of Bones Apart made a convincing case that a trombone quartet can produce an equally varied and fleet-footed programme.
Marin Alsop conducted the U.S. premiere of Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto on Thursday night with Joseph Alessi, left, and the New York Philharmonic.
New Orleans meets New Orleans in this song by Trombone Shorty.
She plays paddle ball while he plays the trombone horribly, but they are interrupted by Leland's call, who tells Lucy his wife saw Laura's killer, and he needs help to find Truman.
The brass section consisted of Snorri Sigurðarson, Sigurrós Jóhannesdóttir and Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson on trumpet and Samúel Jón Samúelsson on trombone.
Common combinations with trombone
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the trombone 33×
- and trombone 15×
- trombone and 12×
- on trombone 11×
- trombone in 10×
- bass trombone 6×
- trombone parts 6×
- tenor trombone 6×
- played trombone 5×
- trombone as 5×