INSTRUMENTAL in a Sentence

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149 example sentences for INSTRUMENTAL, such as:
1. The last track on the CD is an instrumental.
2. The dentist picked away several instruments.
3. She has unusual ability in instrumental music.
4. I like instrumental music better than vocal music.
5. All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of INSTRUMENTAL
instrumental
 a.  relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments
 a.  serving or acting as a means or aid
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  I not only attended the weekly debating society, but was instrumental in organizing an additional society.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV.
2  She has unusual ability in instrumental music.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI.
3  They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
8  I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LV
9  But the umblest persons, Master Copperfield,' he presently resumed, 'may be the instruments of good.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
10  I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
11  My boots might be placed in any collection of instruments of torture.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
12  The instruments of transfer were drawn out: St. John, Diana, Mary, and I, each became possessed of a competency.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
14  Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
15  Before the throne, was a large table filled with globes and spheres, and mathematical instruments of all kinds.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  The last track on the CD is an instrumental.
2  He was instrumental in bringing about an end to the conflict.
3  In his first years as chairman he was instrumental in raising the company's wider profile.
4  Chandler was instrumental in making Jackie Robinson the first black player in the major leagues.
5  Scientists may have identified a region of the brain instrumental in the creation of dreams.
6  I like instrumental music better than vocal music.
7  All surgical instruments must be sterilised before use.
8  She was no mean performer on a variety of other instruments.
9  The main orchestral brass instruments are the horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba.
10  Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, instruments of the wise.
11  When a scientist studies combustion, he peers though his instruments at one of the million aspects of the one great mystery.
12  The dentist picked away several instruments.
13  There are many lights and electrical instruments on the computer console.
14  The masquerade is where fans play instruments and perform skits, dance numbers, and stand-up comedy in costume.
15  In any other operating room instruments would have been beeping wildly and doctors would be frantically shouting orders as they attempted to resuscitate me.