CONCERT in a Sentence

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His liking for Mozart's music brought him sometimes to an opera or a concert: these were the only dissipations of his life.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONCERT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
concert
 n.  performance of music by players or singers
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  His liking for Mozart's music brought him sometimes to an opera or a concert: these were the only dissipations of his life.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
2  He met her again a few weeks afterwards at a concert in Earlsfort Terrace and seized the moments when her daughter's attention was diverted to become intimate.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
3  She took a dozen of two-shilling tickets for the final concert and sent them to those friends who could not be trusted to come otherwise.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
4  The concert expired shortly before ten, and everyone went home quickly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
5  The concert on Thursday night was better attended, but Mrs. Kearney saw at once that the house was filled with paper.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
6  The audience behaved indecorously, as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
7  The night of the grand concert came.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
8  Mrs. Kearney, with her husband and daughter, arrived at the Antient Concert Rooms three-quarters of an hour before the time at which the concert was to begin.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
9  It was his humour to have people know what an ordeal a concert was to him.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
10  The Freeman man had come in to say that he could not wait for the concert as he had to report the lecture which an American priest was giving in the Mansion House.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
11  The first part of the concert was very successful except for Madam Glynn's item.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A MOTHER
12  She had been through the Academy and gave a pupils' concert every year in the upper room of the Antient Concert Rooms.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
13  After Holmes' departure for the concert, I lay down upon the sofa and endeavoured to get a couple of hours' sleep.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
14  It was a concert for the benefit of a person patronised by Lady Dalrymple.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
15  They had a concert bill between them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  Everyone cheered for the violinist at our school concert.
17  The fact that the concert made a profit was considered incidental.
18  The hall was packed out for Menuhin's first concert.
19  The concert attracted a large turnout.
20  The concert will raise money for local charities.
21  The concert was excellent - there were lots of well-known songs with some new ones thrown in for good measure.
22  The concert only lasted an hour, so we felt we were getting short measure.
23  The concert began with the National Anthem.
24  The concert got a good write-up in the newspaper.
25  I suppose the concert was OK, as these things go.
26  The orchestra is to perform its last ever concert/last concert ever tomorrow night at the Albert Hall.
27  The LSO will perform a much-loved concert piece.
28  The concert will raise funds for research into Aids.
29  The concert was rather a scrappy affair.
30  We managed to record the whole of the concert from a live studio broadcast.