CORNET in a Sentence

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For CORNET, below is one of 10 sentences:
The hussar cornet of Kutuzov's suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the carriage and rode up to Dolokhov.

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 Meanings and Examples of CORNET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cornet
 n.  a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone
Classic Sentence:
1  The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
2  The hussar cornet of Kutuzov's suite who had mimicked the regimental commander, fell back from the carriage and rode up to Dolokhov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
3  Hussar cornet Zherkov had at one time, in Petersburg, belonged to the wild set led by Dolokhov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
4  He waited a moment to see whether the cornet would answer, but he turned and went out of the corridor.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III
5  He knew from experience the tormenting expectation of terror and death the cornet was suffering and knew that only time could help him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIV
6  A cornet, hearing the story, informed his commander.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III
7  Del Snafflin's orchestra of piano, violin, and cornet began to tune up and every one behind the magic line of the proscenic arch was frightened into paralysis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  I love to play cornet - and it is a very versatile instrument.
2  It's a musical instrument made of brass, somewhat like a cornet and with a similar compass.