piper

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Recent Examples of piper The Bruins are paying the piper for trading four first-round picks — part of the costs of acquiring Nash, Ondrej Kase, Lindholm and Orlov — in the last seven years and falling short on their other selections. Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025 With bo la lot, seasoned ground beef is rolled in piper sarmentosum, also colloquially known as wild betel leaves, which have an herbal and peppery flavor when cooked. Christina Liao, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2024 With his entourage of ballers and video vixens, his retinue of security, his talent for curation, Puff was the ringmaster of relevancy, the pied piper of fun and the force at the very center of cultural power. Amy Dubois Barnett, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024 The Bruins are paying the piper for trading four first-round picks — part of the costs of acquiring Nash, Ondrej Kase, Lindholm and Orlov — in the last seven years and falling short on their other selections. Fluto Shinzawa, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for piper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piper
Noun
  • My husband, who is sixty-nine, is also retired but freelances as a pianist and organist five or six days a week.
    Liana Finck, New Yorker, 5 June 2025
  • After winning his first Grammy this year for his roots-gospel album, Church, the organist and singer, known for his work with Snarky Puppy and Vulfpeck, appears to be in communion with something bigger than the stage.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Her vocals soared, her band—featuring powerful performances from the women drummer and guitarists—matched her intensity, and the production included pyro effects and a sky full of streamers that sent the crowd into a frenzy.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Hodge says the aim was to tap as many Chicago artists and musicians — from local bucket drummers to cast members like Shea Couleé — to capture the true texture of the city.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Born in Argentina in 1932 to a musical family, Schifrin cut his chops as a jazz pianist in Europe before settling in America and drawing on his own skill to work first as a classical composer and then as a scorer for film and television.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • That night, Dylan was joined onstage only by bassist Tony Garnier and pianist Patrick Warren.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The latest iteration of the event included performances from trumpeter Tony Guerrero, Dustbowl Revival, Janet Klein & her Parlor Boys, and more.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 June 2025
  • Jackson’s many credits include collaborations with Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones and former San Diego trumpeter Brian Lynch.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Live bands and Basque flutists pirouette around gigantes and bigheads, dancers with enormous papier-mâché heads of historical figures including kings, queens and Moors.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
  • Woodwind contributions in the Schubert from clarinetist Stephen Williamson, oboist William Welter, and outgoing flutist Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson were both impassioned and lucid.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The singer/flautist, however, has long been vocal in her support for her LGBTQ fans, and in 2023, her brand Yitty unveiled a line of gender-affirming shapewear.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 June 2025
  • The musician, who rose to fame on the arm of quick-witted bars, released back-to-back flute albums in 2023, surprising fans and critics alike who were impressed by his skills as a flautist.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • First Presbyterian Church of Mount Dora, 222 W. Sixth Ave., is sponsoring a patriotic concert and ice cream social at 4 p.m. June 29, featuring soloists Kasey Cox, Janelle Woodward and Rick Vale, along with percussionist John Lowe and pianist Randy Frieling.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
  • The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • First Presbyterian Church of Mount Dora, 222 W. Sixth Ave., is sponsoring a patriotic concert and ice cream social at 4 p.m. June 29, featuring soloists Kasey Cox, Janelle Woodward and Rick Vale, along with percussionist John Lowe and pianist Randy Frieling.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2025
  • Percussionist to perform in St. Charles The St. Charles Public Library concludes its 2024-25 Sunday Concert Series at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 22, with a performance by percussionist Josh Graham at the library, 1 S. Sixth St. in St. Charles.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025

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