How to Use cello in a Sentence

cello

noun

• The cello, for me, was still the main instrument, and just a core sound of the show.
  — Amon Warmann, Variety, 25 May 2023
• The cello and the double-bass: larger and deeper still.
  — Richard Siken, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
• Once a duo, Wild Child is now a septet, with members on horns, cello and keys.
  — Annie Zaleski, Chron, 14 Dec. 2022
• Her preferred instruments were the most human: the flute and the cello.
  — Joshua Barone, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
• Summers were crowded, what with all the poets and the artists and one year a group of cello students.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2022
• Hynes played cello, adding extra punch to the raw ballad.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2022
• The low registers of the bass clarinet and cello then evoke clouds of infrared light.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• The cello was played by a young officer who asked not to be named or photographed.
  — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• But the cello did not inspire him, so his father gave him a trombone.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 9 June 2022
• As an 11-year-old, Brooke had been taking karate, soccer, cello and dance lessons and singing in a church choir.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The king has reportedly loved the cello since his time at boarding school.
  — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2023
• Sarah Clayton, mother of three, wants her daughters to learn to play cello.
  — Brandon Drenon, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2022
• The duo also made a series of Grammy Award-winning recordings of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano in the 1980s.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2022
• Music director Fabio Luisi said in a statement that the gifts will enrich the sound of the cello section.
  — Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2022
• Aves, the same way knowing how to place your fingers on a violin gives you a head start on the cello, the lute, and the electric guitar.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2022
• Then Khoma will be the soloist for Schumann’s cello concerto.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
• The same wood was indeed used to make the Stradivari harp and the Amati cello, Dr. Bernabei and his colleagues suggest.
  — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 8 June 2022
• Plus, basketball and the cello don’t go very well together, what with the jammed fingers.
  — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
• That's how Laufey, who now plays the cello and guitar as well, first fell in love with classical music.
  — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
• But after picking up a cello for the first time at age 10, Heyward never looked back.
  — Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2023
• As young women, the sisters performed as a trio; one sister played the harp, one the piano, and my grandmother the cello.
  — Lyn Slater, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024
• Born in New York and raised in Connecticut, Greenbaum started playing cello at the age of 3.
  — Beth Woodcontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
• The solo cello drums a duet with drummer in the percussion section, and that brings on a riot of metal.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
• He’s been tutoring kids in cello and Hebrew for years and never raised his rates.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2022
• Vera Jiji, who returned to playing the cello at age 62.
  — New York Times, 1 Jan. 2022
• Terah played more cello and took pride in improving and placing third in the state with her school’s string ensemble.
  — Terah Bennett, oregonlive, 7 Aug. 2022
• Under Kuan’s baton, the harp accents the violins, the brass caps the cello and bass bits and everything rubs up against each other just right.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2022
• By high school, Cardone had lost interest in cello and found a truer calling, playing bass in rock ‘n’ roll bands.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 11 Dec. 2022
• Max, who plays everything from the cello to the ukulele, can often be found jamming to Beatles tunes with his dad on guitar.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• But a girl playing cello isn’t nearly metal enough for Hunter, in part because nothing is.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024