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Example sentences for "mandolin"

Lexicographically close words:
mandibular; mandibulate; mandioc; mandioca; mando; mandoline; mandolins; mandorla; mandragora; mandrake
  1. The mandolin had fallen from her hands; the ruddy firelight lit up her slight figure and fair, disordered curls.

  2. The three members of the mandolin club were left at the Kimball home until Cora and Jack returned.

  3. Some of the boys play in Jack's mandolin club.

  4. There was laughter at this, and Jack introduced his mandolin club friends to Cora and the twins.

  5. The gay members of the mandolin club had little to say, and when they did attempt a pleasantry the laughter was soon over.

  6. Yes; he's gone over to see about a concert his mandolin club is going to give, and he said he might bring a couple of the members back with him to stay a few days.

  7. The officer of gendarmerie kept his back toward me, while the German soldiers grew boisterous over repeated relays of beer, and over mandolin strummings by a red-faced Unteroffizier.

  8. After some strumming on the mandolin and balalaika by Titoff and Belaef, I slept on the first mate's couch, with my money tucked next to my skin.

  9. Some of the boys played the mandolin or banjo; others sang; and a few even tried to dance with their customary vigor, though weariness compelled them to speedily abandon this form of hilarity.

  10. Then, besides, voices sounded, as men called out to one another; while the fellow who twanged the mandolin persisted in his efforts to practice on the airs he possibly meant to sing the next time he went courting down below the Mexican border.

  11. Tonio loved his dark, passionate mother, who played the piano and the mandolin so wonderfully, and he was happy that she did not grieve over his doubtful position among men.

  12. They went down together, to find Violet thrumming her mandolin in the twilight for the benefit of Max who was stretched at full length on the drawing-room sofa.

  13. The mandolin jarred and jangled upon the ground.

  14. She picked up the mandolin with a swish of its red ribbons, and laid it upon the piano, where it quivered and thrummed again like a living thing, awaking weird echoes from the instrument on which it rested.

  15. The revered Max suffered agonies about you last night, and nearly slew me with a glance because I dared to touch my mandolin after dinner.

  16. The beautiful voice throbbed away into silence, and the mandolin jarred and thrummed upon the floor.

  17. He had a room directly opposite Ned Lowe, who plays the mandolin and is quite a singer.

  18. Here the Rovers were introduced to a number of other pupils, including Ned Lowe, who was quite a mandolin player and also a good singer, and a tall, studious youth named Dan Soppinger.

  19. This last verse died away as if the queen were exhausted, and at the same time the mandolin slipped from her hands, and would have fallen to the ground had not Mary Seyton thrown herself on her knees and prevented it.

  20. And that was why you might have seen a Mephisto and a slender troubadour of lovely form, with mandolin flung across his shoulder, followed by a bevy of jockeys and ballet girls, laughing and singing as they swept down Rampart Street.

  21. He has also recently been elected to membership in one of the school's most exclusive organizations, the Banjo and Mandolin Club, to which, because of a rare musical talent, he will doubtless prove a valuable addition.

  22. If," he added ruefully, "he learned about the Banjo and Mandolin Club he'd probably send me a ticket home!

  23. And how about mentioning that you've made the Banjo and Mandolin Club?

  24. Least of all will I ever divulge a word to that exclusive organization, the Banjo and Mandolin Club, Dick!

  25. And Dick's terribly worried and is afraid the old man will learn that he's been taken into the Banjo and Mandolin Club.

  26. She could just see him keeping the whole party gay with his mandolin and his songs.

  27. And right on top of this blow comes the horrible discovery, when he takes his mandolin out of the case, that it has been fatally injured in the moving.

  28. Philidor unpacked Clarissa and recited in a loud tone the now familiar inventory of their artistic achievements and Yvonne, smiling, donned her orchestra, tuned her mandolin and played.

  29. In her right hand was a mandolin which she waved at him triumphantly as she reached him with a grand crash, squeak, tinkle and thump of all the instruments at once.

  30. It could not in any truth be said that Yvonne's orchestra was a symphonic success, for she jangled her mandolin horribly out of tune, and blew her mouth-organ atrociously.

  31. I went out and bought a mandolin and hired a teacher.

  32. I naturally told him I'd played the mandolin all my life.

  33. It is a little mandolin of gilded brass, and is shown of actual size in Fig.

  34. The bottom of the mandolin is closed by a horizontal silver plate, beneath which is soldered the box of a compass designed to put the instrument in the meridian, and carrying upon its face an arrow and the indications S.

  35. He had expected to miss the Mandolin Club.

  36. The Mandolin Club met, officially, every Thursday and spangled the Texas night with their tinkling.

  37. On a recent evening, when I was present at a mixed entertainment, consisting of mandolin and guitar music, singing, reciting, etc.

  38. We shall first have a mandolin and guitar duet, and this will bring a small group together.

  39. At first she thought she was dreaming--but no, it was a mandolin being played on muted strings.

  40. He was dismissed with a graceful wave of the hand by the princess, and broke his mandolin in his vexation, as he quitted the hall of audience.

  41. Strike your mandolin again louder, beloved of my soul--still louder, that I may be further relieved of this unwished-for crowd.

  42. Mezrimbi entered the bower, and explained to the mutes by signs what it was which he desired, showed them the cloak and mandolin to make known the object of his wrath, and put into their hands the bottle of corrosive acid.

  43. Who was there in the whole kingdom of Souffra who could so sweetly touch the mandolin as Acota?

  44. At the Wedding the two Mandolin Players were permitted to act as Ushers.

  45. The silver had not yet died out of the sky; he could see it across the spaces between the dark houses; it was sad in exactly the same way as the sound of the mandolin had been sad.

  46. She liberated the same sadness as the sound of the mandolin and the gleam of silver in the June sky, but it was far more poignant.

  47. Two minstrels presently appeared, one of whom had a kind of mandolin with five strings; the other was a singer.

  48. There was a mandolin in the corner; but she touched it not.

  49. The song ceased, and the light accompaniment of a lute or mandolin ceased likewise.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mandolin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    banjo; guitar; lute; mandolin; samisen; sitar; ukulele