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Example sentences for "treble"

Lexicographically close words:
treatment; treatments; treats; treaty; treatyse; trebled; trebles; trebling; trebly; trebuchet
  1. There were three courts, each having treble gates, well guarded by armed sentries.

  2. Is this treble sore fresh, that it should now so rankle the heart and cloud the brow of my venerable parent?

  3. Acting on blind impulse, she ran toward the watering-trough, calling out in her clear treble "Mr. Simpson!

  4. It always sounded beautiful in her ears, as she sent her tearful little treble into the clear morning air.

  5. In both cases he has to use the treble clef, which does not appear elsewhere.

  6. The second, instructions for the viol and also for the treble violin.

  7. These differences Homer knew, since he represents women and boys with treble voices, by reason of the tenuity of their breath; men, he makes with bass voices.

  8. To produce them in a pre-eminent degree requires all the resources of poetry, language in its most purged form, its remote associations and suggestions, its double and treble lights.

  9. In the middle of Buchanan Street, an agitated treble called after him, "Mr. Halfred!

  10. On one of these occasions he heard the gatekeeper whistle three times consecutively; his attendant followed suit, and hurried Alfred into the house, which soon rang with treble signals.

  11. A heavy sea got up under a scourging wind, that rose and rose, till the Agra, under the pressure of that single sail treble reefed, heeled over so as to dip her lee channels.

  12. Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in the same kind!

  13. Twice treble shame on Angelo, To weed my vice and let his grow!

  14. I have seen a work upon the subject in four folio volumes in point of matter equivalent to treble the number in Europe.

  15. The French numbered about 900 bayonets, with treble that number of peasant partisans.

  16. This is not much for your intelligence; but I would gladly have given you treble the money, if it had been favourable to the boy.

  17. A first portion of the company with Captain Treble left England with General Buller and his staff, and the rest followed on October 21st, and several further detachments went out with later contingents.

  18. Treble of the London Postal Service took the command, which he held at the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, aided by Captain W.

  19. PIPES of the misty moorlands, Voice of the glens and hills; The droning of the torrents, The treble of the rills!

  20. Druid, for their spirited conduct and bravery on the 8th instant, in having, jointly with the Crescent, repelled ships of the enemy treble our force.

  21. Afterwards we sailed to the eastward again, under a treble reefed sail, and landed before dark in a corner between projecting rocks.

  22. We were at this time running free, under treble reefed topsails, with top-gallant yards and masts on deck; the wind being strong from W.

  23. Mrs. Tabor's treble rose above the murmur, and as suddenly ceased.

  24. The other man was tall, with a breadth of shoulder and thickness of chest that would have done credit to a professional strong man; yet his voice came in an absurd treble squeak, with an odd precision of articulation and phrasing.

  25. He that taketh himself to be wrongfully excommunicated in one church, shall have a treble remedy: (1.

  26. There shall be a treble lock upon the door of the ministry:-- (1.

  27. It is double what is usual, and treble what you merit, Andrew; but there's a guinea for you, and get about your business.

  28. The word came forth with a majestic sonority; for her voice now--how changed from the silvery treble of her girlhood!

  29. There had been a death in the village during the past week, and the event was now commemorated by a dirge in which the children's shrill treble was supported by the majority of the congregation.

  30. It is not wrote so plain on the box as it might be," cried a plaintive treble from the cottage door.

  31. The anguish has conquered the laughter, and is now mixed with a shrill treble wrath.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accompaniment; acute; air; alto; aria; baritone; bass; bravura; burden; canto; choral; coloratura; contralto; descant; dramatic; drone; falsetto; heroic; high; hymnal; lay; line; liturgic; liturgical; lyrical; measure; melody; note; operatic; part; piercing; piping; refrain; sacred; sharp; shrill; singing; solo; song; soprano; stitch; strain; tenor; ternary; thin; treble; triple; triplex; triplicate; tune; vocal; voice