nocturne

Example Sentences

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She plays a nocturne of some kind, echoing, transparent melodies.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2022

The movements that follow are arboreal portraits in music: a puckish, dancing duet for the bassoon and a violin; a mysterious nocturne; curlicue phrases choked into fragments; and patient brooding.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2022

In a nocturne evoking the bells of Geneva, he then turned each into an epic tolling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2016

Two brothers, separated by geographic and economic continents, might be brought to tears by the same Chopin nocturne, as if responding to some subtle, common chord struck by their genomes.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2016

She got my bathrobe for me, and then she dried my hair with those powerful fingers of hers as gently as she might coax a nocturne from our old piano.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson