brasses
- plural of brass.
Example Sentences
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Their sound has a lovely finish: softly molded winds, round-toned brasses, strings that never turn strident.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, grandly classical in conception, with dashes of the composer’s wily idiosyncrasies, was played with lush strings and enveloping brasses.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2024
Flutes dipped like swallows, and brasses popped out like goblins.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023
“Mythologies” revels in the palpably human effects of an acoustic ensemble: the trembling friction of bows on strings; the exhalations of breath into brasses; the grumble of bassoon, with audible clicks of fingers on keys.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2023
The harness was polished and the horse brasses glittered like gold.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
