Sample Sentences for
accordion
(editor-reviewed)

accordion as in:  an accordion door

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    He was a painter by trade and played the piano accordion.  (source)
    accordion = a musical instrument held in the hands that has a keyboard and two rigid sides with parallel folds in the middle that can be filled with air and compressed by pushing one of the rigid sides
  • •
    Ahmad Zahir was playing an accordion and singing on the stage over masses of dancing bodies.  (source)
  • •
    The notes of an accordion float across from the billets.  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 5 word variations
  • •
    He locked Roy in a fierce bear hug that emptied the air from Roy's lungs like an accordion.†  (source)
  • •
    Me, thought Will, seeing the guillotine flash, the Egyptian mirrors unfold accordions of light, and the sulphur-skinned devil-man sipping lava, like gunpowder tea.†  (source)
  • •
    The Deliverator winces, imagining the garlicky topping accordioning into the back wall of the box.†  (source)
  • •
    Buckley was standing now, but he looked first down at his shoes and then over his shoulder, out past the window to where the planes were parked, disgorging their passengers into accordioned tubes.†  (source)
  • •
    Atop it was a camera, a great boxy thing with an accordionlike lens.†  (source)
  • •
    The accordion player now began to play a jaunty little melody reminiscent of an English carol.†  (source)
  • •
    Then the fiddles, bull fiddles, accordions, banjos and knuckle-bones broke into a slow rendition of "Lorena"—too slow for dancing, the dancing would come later when the booths were emptied of their wares.†  (source)
  • •
    The rattle of the gate accordioning back, the bump of the doors opening and closing.†  (source)
  • •
    Old Chao unlocked the door in order to demonstrate how the roof unlatched, how it accordioned.†  (source)
  • •
    He also played the bass fiddle, the accordion and the piano.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)