VIOLIN in a Sentence

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For VIOLIN, below is one of 45 sentences:
Some days he take his violin out of his box and make with his fingers on the strings, like this, but never he make the music.

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 Meanings and Examples of VIOLIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
violin
 n.  small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1  Out of the dusk her violin took up the organ theme, and the candle-light revealed her in a straight golden frock, her arm arched to the bow, her lips serious.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  She reveled in the Art Institute, in symphonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Her violin lay on top of the upright piano.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  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
5  I'll take back the sound of Yvette Guilbert's songs and Elman's violin.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  At home he play violin all the time; for weddings and for dance.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
7  Some days he take his violin out of his box and make with his fingers on the strings, like this, but never he make the music.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
8  He play horn and violin, and he read so many books that the priests in Bohemie come to talk to him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
9  Leo, with a good deal of fussing, got out his violin.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
10  One brought his flute and another his violin, while there were some who sang and a number who performed upon the piano with various degrees of taste and agility.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
11  He nods and shakes his head at his companions, jerking at them with his violin, until at last the long form of the second violinist also rises up.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  The victim was Tamoszius Kuszleika, who played the violin.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  I see that I have alluded above to his powers upon the violin.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
14  When I returned with the pistol the table had been cleared, and Holmes was engaged in his favourite occupation of scraping upon his violin.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
15  Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
Example Sentence:
1  The viola is exactly in counterpoint to the first violin.
2  The oft-quoted example of Nero playing the violin as Rome burned shows the Emperor's detachment from reality.
3  The cello is a member of the violin family.
4  It's only half the size of a normal violin.
5  I don't know how to play a violin.
6  The violin player walked away with the show.
7  It takes a lot of practice to play the violin well.
8  The violin and the piano seem to be out of tune.
9  I went to a violin recital today.
10  The violin string snapped because it was fastened too tight.
11  In this novel, Victor Vail, a blind violin maestro, is saved from kidnapping.
12  Brianna Kahane, the 8-year-old violin prodigy, played at the memorial observance there.
13  The child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin grew into a virtuoso whose violin performances thrilled millions.