How to Use cello in a Sentence

cello

noun
Definition of cellonext
  • The cello, for me, was still the main instrument, and just a core sound of the show.
    — Amon Warmann, Variety, 25 May 2023
  • Pull the strip, slip the cello off the sides and the fillings drop right into the nori, ready to eat.
    — Dominic Armato, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
  • One thing the cello can’t do is hold many notes at once.
    — David Marchese, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
  • It’s not out here where the piano keys are, or where the cello is.
    — NBC News, 17 Mar. 2021
  • With the system turned on, the sound under the balcony was equal to the sound in the main space, even from the cello.
    — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The cello is closest to the human voice, so there’s a long solo in the piece.
    — Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • In the theme’s reprise, the upper line moves from the first cello to the viola, and the piece sings from the inside out.
    — Daniel Gelernter, National Review, 2 Nov. 2019
  • That grand piano in the foyer, the cello in the entryway, the rows of bourbons in the bar?
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2021
  • One or more of the cellos didn’t always land in the center of pitches.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Through the subwoofer, the warm, rich strains of the cello vibrated in the still air of my living room.
    — Adrienne So, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The cello and the double-bass: larger and deeper still.
    — Richard Siken, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That electric cello melody sure is easy enough to get stuck in my head.
    — Courtney Lanning, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Once a duo, Wild Child is now a septet, with members on horns, cello and keys.
    — Annie Zaleski, Chron, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The ambient cello and night owls are quiet, for once, and the pace, at last, rests.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Her preferred instruments were the most human: the flute and the cello.
    — Joshua Barone, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • Summers were crowded, what with all the poets and the artists and one year a group of cello students.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Hynes played cello, adding extra punch to the raw ballad.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The low registers of the bass clarinet and cello then evoke clouds of infrared light.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Tikhonova has been playing the cello for more than four decades.
    — Elisha Anderson, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The cello was played by a young officer who asked not to be named or photographed.
    — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The awards are supposed to be for a movie about someone with it one leg who learns to play the cello or nonsense like that.
    — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2018
  • But the cello did not inspire him, so his father gave him a trombone.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • As an 11-year-old, Brooke had been taking karate, soccer, cello and dance lessons and singing in a church choir.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Tia Coates plays the piano and cello, and sings with the Phoenix Symphony Chorus.
    — Tia Coates, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • Tomkins is on the viola; her sister, Tanya, plays cello, and the rest of the musicians change from year to year.
    — Mindy Sink, The Know, 22 June 2019
  • Sacha Baron Cohen plays the cello and is planning to take some Zoom classes from the masters.
    — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
  • As a child, Dr. Ernst played the cello and gave thought to becoming a composer.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • The king has reportedly loved the cello since his time at boarding school.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Not to get too in the weeds, but the violin is tuned like a mandolin, a viola’s tuned like a manola, and the cello is tuned like a mandecello.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Two play a cello with a luscious vibrato, and another applies an arm to the piano.
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024

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