quintette
Example Sentences
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A trio, a violin sonata, and a piano quintette, a suite for strings, and a concert overture for orchestra complete the list of his writings.
Now that the Five Travelers, as the quintette of Sanford girls loved to call themselves, were once more settled in the country of college, their devoted friends had already planned to honor them.
From Marjorie Dean College Junior by Pauline Lester
And looking downward, the quintette saw the bottom strewn with oysters of unusual size, lying so close together that in many places they seemed to touch each other.
From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Edward Sylvester Ellis
The music stopped just then and our quintette with the partners collected in our corner.
From Back at School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
The quintette at the window watched him with interest and admiration now, as he strode along the gravelled avenue leading to the Presidents' house.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland