Sentence examples for guitar from inspiring English sources

The word "guitar" is correct and is commonly used in written English
You can use it when speaking or writing about the stringed instrument. For example, "I took guitar lessons for five years when I was younger."

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guitar

noun

A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

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They preach it in their music, which is a strange hybrid of beat and electric guitar Asian jazz.

Chadwick's despondent vocals and a melancholic guitar line are run though a heavy wash of reverb, the kind of song that sounds like it was written at the depressing end of an all-night bender.

He used to like hill-walking and playing the guitar, but rarely finds the time now.

"It was just me and another guy on guitar.

They all shared a guitar as children, although Louis moved to bass in 1961 after being smitten by the guitarrón, a large acoustic bass favoured by mariachi bands, which he had heard being played in a shopping arcade in LA.

He won the Golden Ball award and got a gigantic car key, which hung round his neck like a guitar.

In 1989, with the inspired, groundbreaking single Fools Gold and the loose grooves of their debut album, they gave British rock a future, restoring the legacy of the 1960s with a jangling guitar sound and breathing new life into it with the energy of dance music.

They played a raunchy set of old Shadows of Knight, Bo Diddley, Stones and Count Five songs, but were short lived: "We were banned after one assembly by the principal," recalls Tommy, "'cause some people got hurt by Johnny's guitar".

Strap a guitar around her and Carrie struts around the stage with a Mick Jagger hip swagger, shredding riffs with Pete Townshend arm windmills.

There's even Taylor Swift – prompting Bridges to recall how they would get the guitar out between takes.

But of course, this all changes when she meets out-of-this-worldly beautiful Noah, a guitar player in a band, and they inevitably fall in love.

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