Sentence examples for stray notes from inspiring English sources

When Davis hears stray notes outside his window one morning, he bolts out of bed naked.

Even after the orchestra had stopped, there were still a few stray notes from behind the curtain.

A few stray notes are irrelevant when music is played with this level of engagement and pleasure.

Technically, one hears occasional smudged textures or stray notes these days, but they are never more than momentary distractions.

There were occasional heavy-handed moments, and stray notes were sometimes caught up in fistfuls of correct ones.

In the deceptively simple opening Largo the piano plays a slow, ethereal descending scale, pierced by stray notes in high and low registers.

The occasional stray note during the fiery finale hardly diminished its effect.

One early record of this is a notebook he reserves "for expressing the deepest thoughts and feelings of the members of our family" and which remains more or less empty, save for a stray note in his mother's hand which could be about the shopping.

The music wasn't smoothed over or rendered inert: isolated details—stray harp notes, scuttling low-wind figures, a repeated two-note signal in the horns pierced the murk with unsettling potency.

In the first cadenza, a stray chromatic note seemed to cause a hairpin turn from E-flat major into E-flat minor, with a few wild chord changes ensuing.

And Mr. Khan ended some of his long musical statements mercurially, with a stray, sighing note uncoiling through wild slurring that seemed not to lead the ear back to the tonic, but pricked the listener into concentration because of their piquancy and oddity.