How to Use cornet in a Sentence

cornet

noun

• Gorham noted Janzen started in band in the fourth grade on cornet.
  — Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022
• The result of this was a loud blast on the cornet caused by a spasmodic laugh into it.
  — Kori Rumore, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Was having the cornet player there that night in Philly unusual?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
• The band is the oldest continuing cornet band in the country.
  — Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
• The album was made in small groups using voice, cornet, trombone, clarinet, piano, banjo, and, in one case, feet.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Town & Country, 23 Nov. 2020
• Her father, Nicholas, ran a tavern and a dance hall and played cornet professionally.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2020
• There’s a conch shell trumpet from Mexico and a cornet owned by Louis Armstrong’s teacher.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 10 Mar. 2022
• Armstrong purchased his first cornet (a brass instrument shorter and wider than a trumpet) with money loaned from the Karnofskys.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2021
• Pacho Flores was the agile trumpeter, solid in tone throughout his range, brilliant on the cornet and mellow on the flugelhorn.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2023
• It’s scored for a chamber ensemble of violin and double bass, clarinet and bassoon, cornet and trombone and percussion.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Perhaps the point is the flimsiness of such royal symbols, but the toy cornet robs Harvard’s Oedipus of some dignity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022
• For years, townspeople cheered their amateur baseball team, held Sunday school picnics and ice cream socials and heralded their cornet band.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• Larkin lifted a shot into the upper left-hand cornet of the net during a four-on-four situation in between DeBrincat's goals.
  — CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
• Bands in the 19th century had a wide range of formats and instrumentation, but all-brass ensembles were very common and often known as cornet bands.
  — Catherine Baty, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
• The late Chadwick Boseman received a nod for male actor in a leading role for his role as Levee, a trumpet and cornet player in Rainey’s band, but that character is fictional.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2021
• According to the National Park Service, a young Armstrong worked for the family who owned the shop and loaned the future jazz legend money to buy his first cornet -- a brass instrument that resembles a small trumpet.
  — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2021
• In 1914 the family moved to Little Rock, where Powell sang in high school productions and learned to play several instruments including the cornet, clarinet and saxophone.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 May 2026
• While recovering from cancer, Jackson pursued his lifelong dream of designing and measuring the acoustical properties of woodwind instruments, particularly Renaissance-era flutes, crumhorns, and cornets.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
• Nevertheless, Gadson’s father, Harold, bought him and his brother, Thomas, cornets to play in their school’s drum and bugle corps, Gadson recalled in author Jim Payne’s The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk & Soul.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2026