How to Use mandolin in a Sentence

mandolin

noun

• There are pictures of my granddad holding me in his lap with a mandolin.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
• That was when [mandolin player] Matt Mundy was still in the band.
  — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 30 June 2017
• To achieve this, use a mandolin or multi-slicer with a thin blade attachment.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2024
• That didn’t fly, but her grandmother soon gifted her with a mandolin.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024
• Thile takes that a big step further, making the mandolin an outright shape-shifter.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The easiest way to get even and thin slices in a timely manner is a mandolin.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2023
• Volume is a real issue for the mandolin.
  — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
• The two most confusing objects in our kitchens appear to be the zester and the mandolin slicer.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
• Cruz had been playing guitar for years — and also knows how to play the piano and mandolin.
  — Marina Watts, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
• There was the mandolin and the acoustics, and the this other guitar doing its thing.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
• The group’s Jesse Brock was also named mandolin player of the year.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024
• Wash the zucchini, remove the ends, slice them finely with the help of a knife or mandolin.
  — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
• On shelves from floor to ceiling are mandolins in every phase of construction.
  — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
• Blake tries to play the accordion, for example, and what looks like a mandolin.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2020
• There are pictures of her playing the mandolin to her Jerseys.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2021
• Julienne onions lengthwise and thinly in a mandolin.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
• Chris plays things on the mandolin that people never thought were possible.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
• Though Italy was the birthplace of the mandolin, both had been made in China.
  — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
• For extra ease, cut the cucumber with a mandolin, which creates thin, even slices.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 5 June 2024
• Jazz trumpet struts added a cool noir quality to the soundscapes, and mandolin sprints brought a fiery flair.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2019
• Simply holding the mandolin had transported me back fifty years.
  — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
• Since then, he's picked up skills on the guitar, mandolin and piano — and has also learned to record his own music.
  — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
• When making the slaw, use a mandolin or large chef’s knife to thinly slice the ingredients.
  — Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2021
• In the early 1880s, mandolins were all the rage, and a wave of mandolin clubs emerged.
  — Sarah Biegelsen, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
• Then slice both the mooli and cucumber into wafer-thin slices using either a mandolin or a sharp kitchen knife.
  — Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2023
• In the kitchen, steam rose from a pot on the stove as sous chef Jacob Hilliard shaved radishes on a mandolin.
  — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• Use a mandoline slicer, not a vegetable peeler, to cut the thinnest zucchini strips.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
• My background is so much in bluegrass, and bluegrass is all about that choppy kind of backbeat thing with the mandolin.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 8 Apr. 2025
• For this recipe, a mandolin or grater attachment to the food processor could be a great tool to speed up the chopping process.
  — Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 23 June 2023
• However, if chopping, slicing and dicing with a knife feels like a drag, then a mandolin gets the job done in no time.
  — Lanee Lee, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024