How to Use symphony in a Sentence
symphony
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Lair’s dad was a flutist in the symphony.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
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There was barely enough to make out a phrase, let alone a whole symphony.
—Teresa Carey, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2021
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The sauce is a symphony of sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavors.
—Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
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The two themes could play a perfect symphony.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
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They can be found on the symphony’s website.
—Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
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For more than a decade, the symphony has invited him to do so.
—The Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2022
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The latter is how the symphony begins — with a punch to the gut.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
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This staccato symphony turned out to be the songs of fin whales.
—New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
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The dish is a symphony of meat -- beef ribs, cuts of pork, sausages and thinly cut slices of steak.
—Janelle Davis, CNN, 22 May 2022
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Some even dated back to the time Beethoven was writing his symphonies.
—Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025
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Well over a hundred sets of the Beethoven symphonies are now available.
—David Denby, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
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When the church grew quiet, a symphony of whistling furnaces could be heard.
—New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
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One is a symphony, and the other a simple canon.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
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From time to time, schools of small fish breach the water in unison, as if in symphony.
—Josh Lederman, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024
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Sunlight, scalpers and symphonies, in readers’ eyes.
—Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2026
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Bendix was one of the 16 members of the symphony and the chorale who had lost their homes.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025
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Nearby were manuscripts of nine symphonies that Mozart wrote within two years, in his late teens.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
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Videos from both projects can be found on the symphony’s Facebook page, @sasymphony.
—Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 2 June 2020
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As gray dawn seeped into the mountain woods, the wildlife symphony rang down the ridges and through the high coves.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
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Jon Batiste fans are going to have to wait a little longer to see his symphony live.
—Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 5 May 2022
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Soon the summer meadows will be filled with the symphony of the meadowlarks.
—Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
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So put your brain in the fridge, sit back and enjoy a laugh watching this symphony of slapstick.
—Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 14 July 2020
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Gaffigan’s future had always seemed to lie on the symphony stage, not in the opera pit.
—New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
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For hours, there was a steady symphony of anti-Musk chants and horn honking.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
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It isn’t played before the city symphony leaps into an evening of Beethoven.
—Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2021
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Ronaldo and his agent Jorge Mendes have played the press like a symphony for years.
—Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
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The category is a symphony of chaos (in all the best ways).
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Dec. 2025
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The symphony of sounds — a roar, a purr, a putter — each engine creates.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
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The concert will mark Ushikubo’s second time here with the symphony.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
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Hartford Chorale will join the symphony.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
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