- plural of instrument.
- present tense form of instrument (3rd person singular).
instruments
Example Sentences
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The extended X-ray activity was energetic, but it occurred at wavelengths that conventional gamma-ray instruments would have struggled to detect.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Local schools may take musical instruments gathering dust in your basement or attic as they did for me.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
It’s so immediately distinctive: 0 to 60 in five seconds, instant energy, a handful of guitar notes before all of the instruments rev up.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
It was the first time Michigan had lost this contest in the Twin Cities since 1977, when local teen Prince Rogers Nelson was playing all the instruments on his first album.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The greenery of outside had come cascading in over the last hundred years, and there was a piano, entwined in ivy, and a cello, and some wooden instruments Christopher had never seen, covered in vines.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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