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Example sentences for "accordion"

Lexicographically close words:
accordin; according; accordinge; accordinglie; accordingly; accords; accordyng; accordynge; accost; accosted
  1. When night crept up again through the gorges, the reedy notes of the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps by the flickering camp-fire.

  2. The accordion and the bones were put aside that day, and Homer was forgotten.

  3. Mr. Gupperduck was seated on a chair, endeavouring to discipline his accordion into not sounding E sharp continuously through each hymn.

  4. Mr. Gupperduck laid his accordion on a chair, giving up the unequal struggle.

  5. In one experiment an accordion is placed in a cage under the table and Mr. Home puts his hand into the top of the cage to do psychic things with the instrument.

  6. She's trying very hard to play a little on the piano, with her small fingers, and you should see her using a little accordion I gave her.

  7. It seemed to at first; but one day Patrick undertook to bleed him for the blind staggers, and he must have cut the horse in the wrong place, for the poor brute fell over on the accordion person and died, nearly killing the musician.

  8. Of course, an accordion and fiddle are all right for a cowboy dance, but this is going to be the real thing!

  9. Have you ever seen an accordion (concertina, I believe, is the correct name) hanging in a shop window?

  10. I was holding an accordion under a table by its bellows end, as Home used to do, and while the playing was going on I just believed if I looked under the table I could see something.

  11. Crookes saw in a full light an accordion playing beneath the touch of invisible fingers.

  12. The performer on the accordion is a virtuoso; he takes delight in winding florid ornament, after the manner of some brilliant singer impersonating Rosina in Il Barbiere, around the melodies he performs.

  13. A strange lad; I like to think of him always sitting there, passively, playing the accordion and shaking his sleigh-bells.

  14. In the next house the accordion was beginning a new tune, was designating Jerusalem as its ha-appy home.

  15. It did not seem to bear upon the subject, but somebody, probably the accordion next door, laughed.

  16. The monkey lay on the table, the accordion lay there too; Mr. Farrow stopped his whistling and sat back in his chair with his finger to his mouth.

  17. He raised the accordion which he carried slung over his shoulder, saying in a whisper: "People are coming.

  18. With that, the unknown displayed an accordion which was slung across his chest.

  19. Was not his accordion there to show that he possessed a regular means of livelihood?

  20. Juve appropriated the accordion left by the fleeing bandit: Juve also decided to personate Vagualame and spy on the various persons who had relations with this sinister being.

  21. Fandor himself had not followed the mysterious evolutions of this sinister accordion player as had Juve; but now he wondered whether there might not be a connection between Vagualame and Fantômas.

  22. The young man seated himself beside the old accordion player without seeming to notice him.

  23. This hooded cloak which his knife had revealed, which he had torn from its hiding place in the accordion of Vagualame, was none other than the cloak of Fantômas.

  24. The old accordion player cast a rapid penetrating glance at the countenance of his companion: it was done with the instinctive ease of habit.

  25. Vinson told him many things about the old accordion player with the patriarchal white beard which he already knew; but one remark particularly impressed him.

  26. As Bobinette uttered these last words, the old accordion player chuckled sneeringly: "So that's what you think?

  27. She had remarked certain coincidences, noted certain details: she divined that this enigmatic accordion player might well be none other than--Fantômas.

  28. Then de Loubersac walked up to the old accordion player and asked anxiously: "Can you give me proofs of the truth of what you have just asserted?

  29. The music consisted of one violin with accordion accompaniment.

  30. The accordion (a small one) was then held partly under the leaf of the table, where the slates had been.

  31. Nevertheless, the accordion did not produce any sound while the writer was looking at it.

  32. The accordion was a small one of the kind which is easily procurable in the market.

  33. The accordion was a small one, and I cannot say whether it might not have been played upon with one hand if grasped in the right way.

  34. The experiment of playing an accordion beneath the table was next made, and in one instance the top of the instrument was thrown upon the table.

  35. Mr. Sellers (resuming): An accordion was then played under the manipulations of the Medium, after which that gentleman told the writer that he might look under the table and witness the performance of the instrument.

  36. Leidy: My own supposition is that, when he played the accordion freely, the Medium made use of a little wire attached to a hook or something of that kind, which he could hold by fastening it to his clothing.

  37. He pitched the box in his hands upon the clay floor, and the accordion fell out, quivering like a live thing.

  38. William Vibard moved with his accordion from the porch to beside the kitchen stove.

  39. The wailing clamor of William Vibard's accordion rose from the porch.

  40. A youth brought an accordion from his stores and, sitting cross-legged on the ground, began to play.

  41. The table twisted about, voices were heard and Jacobsen's accordion wailed out tunes above our heads.

  42. The waiter was playing an accordion in a little room over the stairs.

  43. The guest’s irritation increased, for the more he thought about it the more he perceived that the accordion was badly played.

  44. When night crept up again through the gorges, the reedy notes of the accordion rose and fell in fitful spasms and long-drawn gasps by the flickering campfire.

  45. Then here goes," cried Andy, catching up an accordion that stood close at hand.

  46. We can play that and the accordion whenever we want to open up, and thus attract a crowd.

  47. Andy at once caught Matt's idea, and, taking up an accordion which stood close at hand, he began a lively tune of a popular sort.

  48. He accompanied Andy to the barn where the wagon was stored, and they brought not only the accordion and the banjo, but also a violin and a mouth harmonica.

  49. He brought out a banjo, and Andy took up the largest accordion in the place.

  50. And while Martin Culpepper was telling of the anguish of the famine, Watts McHurdie and his accordion and Ezra Lane's fiddle were agitating the heels of the populace.

  51. They brought him an accordion one day while he was getting well, and the two sat together.

  52. And though it was nearly midnight, he brought out his accordion and sat playing it, beating time with his left foot, and in his closed eyes seeing visions that by all the rights of this game of life should come only to youth.

  53. We used to play on that accordion in the case there.

  54. For the accordion is not essentially an instrument of passion.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accordion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.