: a cello player
a yard-long implement that looks just like a cellist's bow, only larger.—
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Plot details are vague at this time but Gilroy has said in interviews that the film revolves around a cellist.
—Justin Kroll, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
David, Melissa and Aria are violists while Sierra is a cellist.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2025
His mother, Eleanor Aller, was first cellist in the Warner Bros. orchestra during the 1940s and ’50s, playing regularly for such giants as Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 7 July 2025
Olivia Kuper-Harris A Super Save from Team Legend, Olivia Kuper-Harris was raised in a musical family and learned how to play piano alongside her mother, who is a cellist.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 May 2025
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025
David, Melissa and Aria are violists while Sierra is a cellist.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2025
His mother, Eleanor Aller, was first cellist in the Warner Bros. orchestra during the 1940s and ’50s, playing regularly for such giants as Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 7 July 2025
Olivia Kuper-Harris A Super Save from Team Legend, Olivia Kuper-Harris was raised in a musical family and learned how to play piano alongside her mother, who is a cellist.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for cellist
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“Cellist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cellist. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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