- plural of instrument.
- present tense form of instrument (3rd person singular).
instruments
Example Sentences
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The newly freed power is expected to keep the spacecraft's three remaining instruments operating for at least one additional year.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
A chapter on living instruments gives pride of place to the cat piano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Insurers held about $480 billion worth of privately rated debt instruments in 2025, more than 10 times their $47 billion value in 2018, when companies first began disclosing their use, the Journal’s analysis shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It was a big enough job for the two scholars to classify all the known musical instruments of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Because they predate written records of their use and were not known to exist until after the date of the Mary Rose’s sinking, the navigational instruments that were excavated are also extremely important.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
