SOLO in a Sentence

Learn SOLO 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.

For SOLO, below is one of 15 sentences:
Although there may be passages where only the soloist is playing, generally the solo part is accompanied by the orchestra.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of SOLO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
solo
 a.  composed or performed by a single voice or instrument; unaccompanied; single
Classic Sentence:
1  The solo over, a duet followed, and then a glee: a joyous conversational murmur filled up the intervals.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Noticing in the next act that her box was empty, Vronsky, rousing indignant "hushes" in the silent audience, went out in the middle of a solo and drove home.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 33
3  It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
Example Sentence:
1  As for the stage in the public auditorium, it can easily be adjusted to accommodate from a full-scale musical production to one by a solo vocalist.
2  After a long and anxious night waiting for just the right conditions for launch, Steve Fossett and his ground crew decided to go ahead with his latest attempt at a solo circumnavigation.
3  The piano is widely used in Western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment.
4  We enjoyed the soprano's solo in Act I so much that we were delighted by its reprise in the finale.
5  Steve Fossett achieves his goal of becoming first solo balloonist to circle the globe.
6  Although there may be passages where only the soloist is playing, generally the solo part is accompanied by the orchestra.
7  He had just completed his final solo album.
8  As individual members' solo careers have proved, each band was greater than the sum of its parts.
9  The slow movement opens with a cello solo.
10  There is a cello solo in the second movement.
11  When he stood for a solo, he gyrated and played with a blaring tone, more like hard-core rock and roll than jazz or swing.
12  The winner of multiple Grammy awards for both solo and chamber performances, Ax believes that the Variations format is the great composer's way of showing consummate artistry.