How to Use polyphonic in a Sentence

polyphonic

adjective

• Your music is a fusion of avant-garde pop, electronics, and polyphonic folk.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Wu Wei, who plays a polyphonic woodwind instrument called the shen.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
• And while the language may be at risk for extinction, its polyphonic hymns have preserved it in amber.
  — Melanie Hamilton, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
• The score is stunning in its variety, in both solo and polyphonic writing.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• The novel those memories inspired is polyphonic, with circles of time and points of view that feel like the music.
  — Danielle A. Jackson, Vulture, 21 May 2021
• Above all, these projects are collaborative, emerging from a polyphonic exchange of ideas.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2021
• This polyphonic novel already has a chorus, thanks to its humdinger cast of ensemble characters.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
• Perhaps this is why a polyphonic and democratic approach to such collecting seems fitting.
  — Sophie Haigney, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• Women who worked in shops sang together in bellowing, polyphonic unison.
  — Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 21 Dec. 2025
• Set in the future amid a pandemic far worse than our own, this polyphonic novel reflects our human desire to find meaning within tragedy.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2021
• The brief orchestral fantasia mixes together snippets from three folk songs in a polyphonic blend.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• The balanced and well-blended choir of 17 voices offered both luminous hymns and polyphonic passages evoking holy dread.
  — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
• For the last few days, my social-media feeds—which, most of the time, read like bleak, polyphonic litanies of the falling-apart world—have been overwhelmed instead by discourse about the sandwich.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019
• The interviews, some friendly, some contentious, give the novel a polyphonic feel, a sense that the discussions and arguments continue to this day.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• The polyphonic narrative that ensues has the pacing and urgency of a spy thriller but the middling stakes of a book about a group of privileged kids sending each other cryptic texts.
  — Rebekah Frumkin, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Laura remains the narrator, but her story grows more polyphonic, less fixed and binary in its assumptions about care work and family-making.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• Dazzling and tightly wound, polyphonic and opinionated, the novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
  — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
• In the past few decades, popular chroniclers influenced both by fiction and by oral history have taken up polyphonic approaches.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• Zivix reports that its algorithms can register complex playing techniques like polyphonic bends, slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, tapping and muting.
  — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
• The choral elements on the record shine most vividly on the title track, which features polyphonic swells of voices humming melodies, overtaking the piano, dropping and then rising again.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
• Jazz has long served as one of the models for his contentious literary pluralism, a polyphonic exchange that might sound disorderly to the uninitiated but which gives all soloists their break.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• In all her essays, Kahanoff looked for a place to call home, where her polyphonic identity would find peace and where the East and the West would have a fertile conversation.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
• Until very recently, the slider phone was a thing of the past, consigned to the annals of history along with polyphonic ringtones and BlackBerry’s scroll wheel.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
• All operatic singing, especially the polyphonic (multipart) style known as bel canto, requires tremendous breath control and vocal skill.
  — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
• Every character in this story gets their own voice — the novel’s polyphonic structure comprises 21 first-person chapters, a daisy chain of regret, anger, humor and self-loathing.
  — Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
• Today a musician can create any type of sound response (and keep in mind that an instrument is more than just sounds) while using any type of controller (albeit there is still work to be done to create a good polyphonic midi guitar).
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• The director complicates the scenario by making the boxer fall in lover with the ballerina as well, creating a polyphonic romantic melodrama.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 30 May 2018
• Maria Arnal, the composer behind the film’s score, brought her polyphonic approach, collaborating closely with the director.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
• The beguiling psychedelia of these polyphonic Parisians has percolated through France’s music scene since their debut album in 2013.
  — Efrain Dorado, RedEye Chicago, 17 Oct. 2017
• The exhibition is divided into three parts, with each envisioned as a part of a polyphonic score existing within the larger symphony of Busan itself.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 8 July 2026