How to Use symphony in a Sentence

symphony

noun
  • The latter is how the symphony begins — with a punch to the gut.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Soon the summer meadows will be filled with the symphony of the meadowlarks.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The crackling fire and a chorus of frogs were our symphony.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
  • For more than a decade, the symphony has invited him to do so.
    The Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Mahler had a bent for tragedy, and Ben-Haim’s symphony reveals the worst of what Mahler foretold.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The symphony’s world premiere will be on Sept. 16 and 17 at Belk Theater.
    Vanessa Infanzon, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Why build the pieces of a symphony over years, only to walk away before penning the final notes?
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
  • But the nanoscale work of chipmaking is monotone only if your ears aren’t sharp enough to hear the symphony.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • String quartets shared billing with Lieder and chamber symphonies.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • For our shared symphony of success is the most melodious tune of all.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The same symphony, in other words—just played at a slower tempo.
    Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Bassoonist Brian Petkovich, who played with the symphony for 25 years, was not among them.
    Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • For some of the symphony’s newer members, the upcoming Carnegie Hall concert marks a heady first.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Next year will mark her 10th year as the CEO of the symphony, which is the oldest orchestra in California.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The electric guitar is the through line here, if there can be a motif for a symphony this absurdly massive.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
  • After a sudden hush, the symphony ends in a final explosion of sound.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 June 2023
  • From jazz, blues and the big sounds of the symphony to salsa, country and rock 'n' roll, our city's parks and public spaces have something to please every taste.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 3 May 2023
  • When waves roll in these small stones produce a symphony of sound similar to ringing bells.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
  • For decades, the symphony remained all but unperformable in the Soviet Union.
    John Adams, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In this, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, his symphony of rhythm, fits right in.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • The fact that the freshman with bouncy blond curls is the first male member of the Trojan Dance Force evaporates in a symphony of stomping feet and rustling pompoms.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • There was, in her telling, no world-class opera, ballet company, or pedigreed symphony to speak of.
    Hillary Kelly, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Also new to the venue is Guster, whose July 29 performance will be an orchestral one with the symphony.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Paul feared that crowds might not show for a debut symphony by an unknown, non-oral autistic teenager.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Morris’s taste runs to the eclectic, making no judgment between music from symphony hall or off the pop charts.
    Iris Fanger, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • The meal was mostly silent, save for the symphony of metal forks or spoons and my father, the lone vocalist, mumbling or moaning through bites.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Take in the symphony of sounds with a glittering city skyline on display behind the floor-to-ceiling windows.
    Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Honda has also increased the RPM at which the active exhaust valve opens, to heighten the car’s four-cylinder symphony.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The best teams weave together notes of a beautiful symphony.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • If price spikes happen in symphony with this tax relief, the financial gains could look even rosier for this sector of its business.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022

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