PIANO in a Sentence

Learn PIANO from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
172 example sentences for PIANO, such as:
1. The piano was in good condition.
2. He played the piano with feeling.
3. The piano player had a firm touch.
4. I taught myself how to play the piano.
5. The cart groaned under the weight of the piano.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PIANO
piano
 a.  used chiefly as a direction or description in music
 n.  (music) low loudness
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Always fiddling with the piano or sticking their heads in a book.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Every girl with any pretense to accomplishments had sung or played the piano, and the tableaux vivants had been greeted with flattering applause.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Aunt Pittypat rose hastily and asked Scarlett to favor them with a piano selection and a song.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  The piano was suddenly silent as Scarlett was overtaken with surprise and embarrassment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  The piano was silent again for she was utterly at a loss.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  The piano was one thing the Yankees couldn't carry away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  God intended him to sit in a great house, talking with pleasant people, playing the piano and writing things which sounded beautiful and made no sense whatsoever.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
9  She could not account for her elevation to this position except by the fact that she could accompany anyone on the piano, even the Misses McLure who were tone deaf but who would sing duets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  By turns she hoped to discover that she had an unusual voice, a talent for the piano, the ability to act, to write, to manage organizations.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  Inside, it was as shiny, as hard, and as cheerful as a new oak upright piano.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  Her dejection was relieved by speculation as to what the men were discussing, in the corner between the piano and the phonograph.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  Doors no longer moved; curtains were not creeping shadows but lovely dark masses in the dusk; and when Bea came home Carol was singing at the piano which she had not touched for many days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  When Carol sat at the piano again she did not think of her husband but of the book-drugged hermit, Guy Pollock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  Either you want to dance, or you bang the piano, or else you get moody as the devil and don't want to talk or anything else.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
1  Famous mainly for his wonderful voice, Cole was also a virtuoso on the piano.
2  She is going to play the piano to a big audience this evening.
3  They are performing his play / piano concerto tonight.
4  The piano player had a firm touch.
5  The cart groaned under the weight of the piano.
6  Even the best teacher cannot get him beyond simple piano exercises.
7  Liszt's piano music presents an enormous technical challenge.
8  The piano was in good condition.
9  I'd like a piano, but here and now we haven't enough room.
10  He played the piano with feeling.
11  He made a wild guess as to how much the piano might cost.
12  The money I get from teaching the piano is a useful supplement to my ordinary income.
13  A piano is a very unwieldy item to get down a flight of stairs.
14  I taught myself how to play the piano.
15  There will be a brief pause in the proceedings while the piano is moved into place.