as in harmonic
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of orchestral
In Los Angeles, after the dancers, the Hollywood Philharmonic took the stage for orchestral takes of some of the group’s hits.
—
Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
The orchestral backing is often trite, cycling through the same progressions for what feels like minutes at a time.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
What will make this concert especially intriguing is finding out which of their other albums have been adapted for orchestral treatments.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
Powell had been there days earlier working with a sizeable orchestra on majestic orchestral sounds.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for orchestral
Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
The orchestral backing is often trite, cycling through the same progressions for what feels like minutes at a time.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2025
What will make this concert especially intriguing is finding out which of their other albums have been adapted for orchestral treatments.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 June 2025
Powell had been there days earlier working with a sizeable orchestra on majestic orchestral sounds.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for orchestral
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
Adjective
-
As dark as the film can seem, it’s also filled with moments of harmonic bliss whenever the girls perform.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
7 July 2025
-
The night celebrated music that bears both glamour and grit because of the raw, cracking power and harmonic warmth of rock and roll's roots in country, folk, jump blues and rockabilly music.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Adjective
-
Get in on the trend in this subtly boxy shirt with allover tonal floral lace embroidery.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
5 July 2025
-
Picking up in a universe near the one represented in Mott’s last book, the award-winning Hell of A Book, People Like Us involves the same tonal gymnastics.—
Literary Hub
July 1,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
Adjective
-
Shakedown leaves the attic and lets the light run over their guitars, with streaks of brightness and a rhythmic tightness that ditches the glorious sloppiness of bar italia’s earlier music.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
9 July 2025
-
Gains from the sectors and its rhythmic strength help the single push 45-44 on the all-genre Radio Songs chart.—
Trevor Anderson,
Billboard,
9 July 2025
Adjective
-
The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.—
Jordan Michelman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 July 2025
-
Canadian poetry is polyphonic, exploratory, and urgent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
Adjective
-
Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
-
Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
-
How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
-
The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
Adjective
-
Featuring 270 works, including 160 never before seen, this exhibition that was two years in the making invites audiences on a multi-sensory journey that mixes sculpture, painting, scent, light, sound, dance and poetry into a lyrical universe shaped by love and transformation.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
-
For many across America, Abt was the voice and conscience of cycling, with his lyrical prose weaving the tale of the Tour across the Atlantic Ocean.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
Adjective
-
In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
-
Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
Cite this Entry
“Orchestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestral. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share