embouchures
- plural of embouchure.
Example Sentences
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His timing is spot on, exaggerating players’ embouchures of the wind instruments he fakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
In a few scattered places there are deep, precipitous ravines, opening to the sea, whose embouchures form difficult but still possible landing-places for the fishermen.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
The deltoid outlet is confined to the tributaries, nearly all of them, like "the disembogning Nile," emptying themselves by innumerable embouchures.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James
Meanwhile, it acts upon the river's trunk as did the sea of old upon its embouchures, blocking it up and converting the land around it to the condition of a swamp.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt
