SAXOPHONE in a Sentence

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1. He started his career in show business by playing the saxophone and singing.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAXOPHONE
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saxophone
 n.  a musical instrument, usually made of metal, that is played by blowing
Classic Sentence:
1  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
2  All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues" while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  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  He started his career in show business by playing the saxophone and singing.