octet

Example Sentences

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But when you ask them about all that success, the octet are suddenly bashful.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

That program began with a small octet by Stravinsky and Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025

He gained renown for his keyboard artistry and charisma leading Episteme, the octet he founded in 1981.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

For the flashing lights, booming electronics and pitch-bending vocal octet of a slew of premieres.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

It is true, he allowed, that the octet of the sonnet has only two rhymes, but these recur only four times, and the liberty of the sestet tempers its despotism,—which I thought a pretty phrase.

From In Flanders Fields and Other Poems by Macphail, Andrew, Sir