Sentence examples for broken piano from inspiring English sources

How remarkable that all this should be captured by a woman in her mid-80s who was told by an NHS nurse that her hearing was akin to a "broken piano", but who was then – as she says – "to go on writing and reading … those two intensities that have buttressed my whole life".

She was losing her hearing — "a broken piano," in the words of the nurse.

The conditions raised the possibility of broken piano strings, cracked instruments and wacky intonation minutes before the president's swearing in (which had problems of its own).

Here's the story: The author, Patrick Wensink, had seen sales jump for his absurdist novel "Broken Piano for President" after Jack Daniel's politely asked him to change the cover (which resembled the famous black label).

Mr. Beirach, who holds nearly as much pull in the group as Mr. Liebman, was the other sterling improviser, though he had some setbacks, including a broken piano string.

We feel the force of his anger as his formidable dancing fractures into shards of rhythm and shape, or when he assaults a broken piano, clawing and stamping at its strings.

Desks were broken, pianos ruined and other instruments damaged or stolen.

Aside from illegally housing tenants and parties, the structure was also home to "trailers, broken pianos and stacks of wood and a complex network of electrical cords and generators," according to The New York Times.

Dealers and private vendors sell broken pianos at auction.

He overcame the piano's inherent background role in a band setting by playing with a forceful touch (sometimes breaking piano strings) and using octave voicing in his melody lines.

He delivered them well: he tossed his legendary mane of hair around, broke pianos, rolled his eyes in ecstasy and made women swoon.