Get to know Violin better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like fiddle or string.
Violin in a sentence
Related words
Violin meaning
- A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
- Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.
- A violinist in an orchestra or group.
Using Violin
- The main meaning on this page is: A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow. | Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass. | A violinist in an orchestra or group.
- Useful related words include: fiddle, bowed stringed instrument, string.
- In the example corpus, violin often appears in combinations such as: the violin, violin and, and violin.
Context around Violin
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Violin
- In this selection, "violin" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, acoustic, main, electric, authentication, cello and clef stand out and add context to how "violin" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a classical violin and alums black violin have managed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "violin" sits close to words such as baghdad, baseman and boil, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with violin
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
French violin clef † French clef Diatonic scale on C, French violin clef. (12 words)
To cheer up Shizuka, Doraemon presents the "Anything Violin," a secret gadget shaped like a violin bow. (17 words)
Violin authentication main Violin authentication is the process of determining the maker and manufacture date of a violin. (18 words)
Dillard High alums Black Violin have managed to pair classical violin and hip-hop to create soulful magic that we should put in a spaceship outfitted with massive speakers and shoot off into space to bump that shit in the stars for the aliens to hear. (46 words)
Fiddle main When played as a folk instrument, the violin is usually referred to in English as a fiddle (although the term fiddle can be used informally no matter what the genre of music.) A fiddle is essentially the same as a classical violin. (44 words)
Kanneh-Mason is the third eldest of musical siblings, Isata, his older sister, who plays the piano, his older brother, Braimah, a year older than Kanneh-Mason, who plays the violin and Mariatu, his younger sister, who plays the violin as well. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
String section main Violin main main Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise solo lines.
To be effective as an acoustic violin, electro-acoustic violins retain much of the resonating body of the violin, and often resemble an acoustic violin or fiddle.
Violin authentication main Violin authentication is the process of determining the maker and manufacture date of a violin.
After working in the United Kingdom, Tom is now a full-time engineer with a continued love for involvement in choirs and their direction, Eleanor has moved away from teaching violin to pursue freelance performance work in violin and voice.
To cheer up Shizuka, Doraemon presents the "Anything Violin," a secret gadget shaped like a violin bow.
Dillard High alums Black Violin have managed to pair classical violin and hip-hop to create soulful magic that we should put in a spaceship outfitted with massive speakers and shoot off into space to bump that shit in the stars for the aliens to hear.
Joining Ksiazek for the series are Airdrie Robinson on violin, Gabe Kastelic on viola and violin, and Christine Bootland on cello.
The grand finale will be a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, led by rising violin star Askar Salimdjanov.
Described as a Celtic rhapsody for violin and piano, it was performed by Timothy Wickham on violin and the orchestral ensemble with Michael Dooley himself on piano.
Master violin maker Antonio Stradivari dies at his home in Cremona, after a life spent bringing violin-making to perfection.
Kanneh-Mason is the third eldest of musical siblings, Isata, his older sister, who plays the piano, his older brother, Braimah, a year older than Kanneh-Mason, who plays the violin and Mariatu, his younger sister, who plays the violin as well.
Wada, a Olean High School senior, started violin and piano under her parents at age 2 1/2, and studies the violin with Nance.
An electric violin with a resonating body that produces listening-level sound independently of the electric elements can be called an electro-acoustic violin.
At the age of four Casals could play the violin, piano and flute; at the age of six he played the violin well enough to perform a solo in public.
Beethoven contributed to the repertoire with a Triple Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra while later in the century, Brahms wrote a Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra.
Beethoven 's Triple Concerto for Cello, Violin and Piano and Brahms ' Double Concerto for Cello and Violin are also part of the concertante repertoire although in both cases the cello shares solo duties with at least one other instrument.
Due to the popularity of the soprano violin, the entire consort eventually took on the name "violin family".
Fiddle main When played as a folk instrument, the violin is usually referred to in English as a fiddle (although the term fiddle can be used informally no matter what the genre of music.) A fiddle is essentially the same as a classical violin.
For a child who needs a smaller size, a fractional-sized violin is often strung with the strings of a viola. citation Unlike the violin, the viola does not have a standard full size.
French violin clef † French clef Diatonic scale on C, French violin clef.
Common combinations with violin
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the violin 51×
- violin and 36×
- and violin 11×
- violin concerto 10×
- violin to 9×
- on violin 8×
- violin cello 8×
- violin with 7×
- for violin 6×
- violin viola 6×