instrumentals
- plural of instrumental.
Example Sentences
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The album is split between instrumentals and songs, but the use of samples—often including pitch-shifted voices—and sense of flow make it feel like a single unified work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Frontwoman Florence Shaw speaks her poetic lyrics over the band’s hypnotic instrumentals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
Inspired by Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” Sonic Youth’s distortion, Black Sabbath’s symbolic lyricism and layered instrumentals, and surrealist artwork, “Mellon Collie” tested the Smashing Pumpkins’ limits as a band.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
And when Shults, who, along with directing the film, co-wrote and edited it, uses the superstar’s irresistible instrumentals in the movie, he marries his beautifully constructed images with sound to create some undeniably gripping sequences.
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
Hence, then, in the and why we have instrumental ablatives, or, simply, instrumentals.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
