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
  • 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
  • Both the blessing and the challenge of the GLOW symphony is that there are a lot of them.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2018
  • The sauce is a symphony of sweet, sour, salty and spicy flavors.
    — Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Well over a hundred sets of the Beethoven symphonies are now available.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
  • Ronaldo and his agent Jorge Mendes have played the press like a symphony for years.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
  • 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
  • During the Armed Forces Salute, the symphony played the theme songs from each of the five branches of the military.
    — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 5 July 2018
  • 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
  • From time to time, schools of small fish breach the water in unison, as if in symphony.
    — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024
  • There was barely enough to make out a phrase, let alone a whole symphony.
    — Teresa Carey, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The symphony is on track to meet its $2.48 million fundraising goal for the first half of this year in the next few weeks, Bharne said.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 26 June 2018
  • But Manny has to grab the maestro stick and get a symphony out of the tin ears (and not just the final day of the season).
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Videos from both projects can be found on the symphony’s Facebook page, @sasymphony.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 2 June 2020
  • And each night, from his home in West L.A., there’s a symphony of speed and horsepower.
    — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2022
  • This staccato symphony turned out to be the songs of fin whales.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The symphony will perform music in the spirit of the Fourth of July.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The concert will mark Ushikubo’s second time here with the symphony.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
  • These appealing symphonies can do more than please the ear.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 4 Dec. 2019
  • When the church grew quiet, a symphony of whistling furnaces could be heard.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Jon Batiste fans are going to have to wait a little longer to see his symphony live.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE.com, 5 May 2022
  • Gaffigan’s future had always seemed to lie on the symphony stage, not in the opera pit.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The symphony was dark for nearly a year starting in March 2020.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The symphony closed its doors in March when the pandemic began to surge in New York City.
    — Javi Morgado and Allen Kim, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The symphony’s world premiere will be on Sept. 16 and 17 at Belk Theater.
    — Vanessa Infanzon, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • During his stay, the composer worked on the first three movements of his fourth symphony.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Because concerts are held in parks and open spaces, and often in remote, resort cities, the whole excursion can seem closer to nature, which happens to be a common theme in the many symphonies that drive the programming for the art form.
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 30 July 2025

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