How to Use cello in a Sentence

cello

noun
  • One thing the cello can’t do is hold many notes at once.
    David Marchese, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Pull the strip, slip the cello off the sides and the fillings drop right into the nori, ready to eat.
    Dominic Armato, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Nick Photinos presents his work for cello plus electronics.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Alexis Hernandez Abreu first picked up the cello at age 3.
    Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Rocker, who played cello as a child before switching to double bass, had a few brushes with Bernstein in his youth.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Sacha Baron Cohen plays the cello and is planning to take some Zoom classes from the masters.
    Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2020
  • With each name Nancy Havlik calls out, a rectangle on her screen stirs as the figure in it moves to the sound of a cello.
    Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Five of them, three men and two women: a string quintet, and with the youngest, a high school physics teacher, as a decidedly insistent cello.
    Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • During Waltraute’s monologue, a solo cello conveyed much of the spacious sorrow of the drama.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The piece, perhaps the most well-known of Beethoven’s five cello sonatas, could be understood as a deliberate attempt to counteract encroaching darkness with a bit of light.
    Madelyne Xiao, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The cello, for me, was still the main instrument, and just a core sound of the show.
    Amon Warmann, Variety, 25 May 2023
  • It’s not out here where the piano keys are, or where the cello is.
    NBC News, 17 Mar. 2021
  • With the system turned on, the sound under the balcony was equal to the sound in the main space, even from the cello.
    oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The cello is closest to the human voice, so there’s a long solo in the piece.
    Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2021
  • That grand piano in the foyer, the cello in the entryway, the rows of bourbons in the bar?
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The cello and the double-bass: larger and deeper still.
    Richard Siken, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That electric cello melody sure is easy enough to get stuck in my head.
    Courtney Lanning, Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Once a duo, Wild Child is now a septet, with members on horns, cello and keys.
    Annie Zaleski, Chron, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The ambient cello and night owls are quiet, for once, and the pace, at last, rests.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • As a child, Dr. Ernst played the cello and gave thought to becoming a composer.
    Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • In a recent phone call with me, Amber recalled that, in 2022, as a social worker came to inspect their house, Max tried to calm himself by practicing the cello.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024

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