GUITAR in a Sentence

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For GUITAR, below is one of 27 sentences:
He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUITAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
guitar
 n.  a stringed instrument usually having six strings, played by strumming or plucking
Classic Sentence:
1  Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  Dunyasha ran up and down like one possessed, and was continually slamming doors; while Piotr was, at three o'clock in the morning, still attempting to strum a Cossack waltz on the guitar.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  Anisya, go and see if the strings of my guitar are all right.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
4  Anisya Fedorovna, with her light step, willingly went to fulfill her errand and brought back the guitar.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
5  Without looking at anyone, "Uncle" blew the dust off it and, tapping the case with his bony fingers, tuned the guitar and settled himself in his armchair.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
6  She resolved to give up learning the harp and to play only the guitar.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
7  She asked "Uncle" for his guitar and at once found the chords of the song.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
8  What she drew from the guitar would have had no meaning for other listeners, but in her imagination a whole series of reminiscences arose from those sounds.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
9  She rose, put down the guitar, and went to the drawing room.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
10  When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  When his children had departed, he took up his guitar and played several mournful but sweet airs, more sweet and mournful than I had ever heard him play before.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
12  He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
13  I felt that the conditions were a good deal like those of an old coloured man, during the days of slavery, who wanted to learn how to play on the guitar.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI.
14  Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
15  Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and guitars disguised as wash-boards.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  In the corner, one youth sat alone, softly strumming a guitar.
2  She tried to describe what made a good guitar sound.
3  The bass guitar began to thump so loudly that it resonated in my head.
4  His guitar solos are just unbelievable.
5  He strummed his guitar when he talked to me.
6  Alan sings with shy intensity, hiding behind the security blanket of his guitar.
7  The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
8  She was trying to teach him to play the guitar.
9  Some guitar players tend to overuse the wah - wah pedal.
10  Even though he was not conservatory trained, his passion for music took him to the point where eventually he was considered one of the best guitar accompanist in Cuba.
11  With his musical talent, he would be much more than some chump pretending to play guitar and sing.
12  But the rock-star whose stage antics used to include smashing guitars is older and wiser now.