wind instrument
a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
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How to use wind instrument in a sentence
The Rude Mechanical Orchestra had our first pandemic practice that included wind instruments on May 18 this year.
What science tells us about reducing coronavirus spread from wind instruments | Betsy Ladyzhets | August 6, 2021 | Science NewsThe air pushed out of a trumpet has the highest concentration of potentially infectious air particles compared with other wind instruments, according to University of Minnesota scientists.
What science tells us about reducing coronavirus spread from wind instruments | Betsy Ladyzhets | August 6, 2021 | Science NewsAnd no wonder, for of all the doleful too-tooings ever uttered by wind instrument, this was the dolefullest.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge HemyngThe only wind instrument existing among them is the Pibbegwon, a kind of flute, resembling in simplicity the Arcadian pipe.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftThere is nothing criminal in preferring the cornet to any other wind instrument.
In playing a wind-instrument, the eyebrows are a great help.
Life's Minor Collisions | Frances WarnerIt was evidently not caused by a wind instrument; I felt sure it was not a concertina or an accordion.
Christie, the King's Servant | Mrs. O. F. Walton
British Dictionary definitions for wind instrument
/ (wɪnd) /
any musical instrument sounded by the breath, such as the woodwinds and brass instruments of an orchestra
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