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

Aespa, the K-pop girl group, frequently perform alongside their digital avatars — the quartet is meant to be viewed as an octet with digital twins.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2023

For “Eleanor Rigby,” the Beatles recorded versions of Martin’s backup arrangement with a string octet using lush classical vibrato and legato phrasing, but they wisely chose a brusque, woody attack instead.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 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