double basses
- plural of double bass.
Example Sentences
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All the same, I was never entirely convinced by the string timbre, especially the cellos and the double-basses.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
The cellos and double-basses were incisive at the start of Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture, and the violins achieved gossamer delicacy as the love theme surged and flowed.
From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2010
The two contestants were milling gloriously on the stage, while the orchestra milled away at its violins and double-basses, prestissimo furioso.
From Time Magazine Archive
Horn-playing Suzanne Howitt will leave the women's club of Teaneck, N. J. Eight other ladies will shoulder their double-basses, pretty Doris Smith her colossal tuba.
From Time Magazine Archive
The organ and the two double-basses could be heard alternately with the voices.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave
