MUSICIAN in a Sentence

Learn MUSICIAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

48 example sentences for MUSICIAN, such as:

1. He is a very creative musician.
2. He is a poor musician for all his training.
3. She isn't a musician, and I'm not a painter.
4. The best professional musicians start young.
5. Even great musicians require constant practice.

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 Meanings and Examples of MUSICIAN
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musician
 n.  artist who composes or conducts music as a profession
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  I am not sure, but I think it was because his son, Laurie's father, married an Italian lady, a musician, which displeased the old man, who is very proud.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
2  Laurie comes naturally by his love of music, for he is like his mother, and I dare say his grandfather fears that he may want to be a musician.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
3  I'm to be a famous musician myself, and all creation is to rush to hear me.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTEEN
4  Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  I was no vocalist myself, and, in his fastidious judgment, no musician, either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She isn't a musician, and I'm not a painter.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX
7  She knew it was useless to ask Madame Ratignolle, who was on the most distant terms with the musician, and preferred to know nothing concerning her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
8  The little musician laughed all over when she saw Edna.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
9  He clasped his hands behind his head, and looking up at the ceiling began to hum a little, trying his voice like a musician tuning an instrument.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
10  It happened sometimes when Edna went to see Mademoiselle Reisz that the little musician was absent, giving a lesson or making some small necessary household purchase.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
11  My father came to be a military musician there from abroad.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
12  My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
13  Incidentally he gave me to understand that Kurtz had been essentially a great musician.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
14  He was an excellent musician, however, as well, and played both the violin and the piano better than most amateurs.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  He was a miserable scamp, a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The orchestra was rehearsing at the time and received the news in silence, according to one musician.
2  The musician made the legend into a beautiful ballad.
3  He's not in the first grade as a musician, why do you want to learn piano from him?
4  She is a talented musician as well as being a photographer.
5  A multi instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.
6  He is a poor musician for all his training.
7  He is a very creative musician.
8  She ranks above any other musician of her generation.
9  She's the offspring of a scientist and a musician.
10  Critics claim he exploited black musicians for personal gain.
11  Rock musicians are working in collaboration with an orchestra to create a new opera.
12  A host of musicians will perform at the festival.
13  Even great musicians require constant practice.
14  The best professional musicians start young.
15  There were court musicians whose exact relation to the family or to any royal court was predictably fuzzy.