Example Sentences

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These results reflect the fact that investor expectations of Federal Reserve policy are the driving force in all debt instruments’ returns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

The veneer of paint influences the instruments’ timbre.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024

It was really quite something to behold, rendered even more impressive by the instruments' stunning clarity and utter lack of generational loss.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2022

So much of classical technique is mitigating instruments’ rough edges — in the violin’s case, the friction necessary to its sound, the bow hair snagging the strings over and over again.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2019

This was always discovered at work upon scales, uncertain, hesitating scales on the lower strings, and, heard suddenly, after the other instruments' genial hubbub, it sounded like some inarticulate animal making uncouth attempts at expression.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel