How to Use instrumentation in a Sentence

instrumentation

noun
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  • There was a problem with the airplane's instrumentation.
  • The instrumentation for both takes me back to the pop music of my childhood in the early '90s.
    — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 22 Feb. 2023
  • How much does Emily bring to the sound of the instrumentation?
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The main instrumentation does kick in during the window of the last Heardle guess, though.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • The Roots achieve the greatest showcase of their skill as a rap group with live instrumentation.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Yes, the instrumentation plays a very important role in the film.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Instead, the track opts for Afrobeats for instrumentation as Scott and Benito carry the first half of the song.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 21 July 2023
  • The instrumentation is varies across both songs, and the melody and lyrics of both the songs bear no resemblance to each other, Sheeran’s lawyers say.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The instrumentation aims for the sort of self-consciously retro funk and disco that never seem to go out of style.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
  • But on Home Video, any kind of instrumentation was fair game.
    — Ilana Kaplan, EW.com, 16 June 2021
  • Kent hacks away the baroque instrumentation, stranding the singer in the same state of isolation described in his lyrics.
    — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2021
  • Stapleton and his band’s clothes and instrumentation did not change at all from song to song.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2022
  • The instrumentation, from some of the best session players of the era, is also stunning.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Perhaps to match the more wistful, strings-heavy instrumentation, some of the lyrics in the romantic song were also changed to past tense.
    — Vulture, 23 June 2023
  • Researchers will use their grant to work on constructing a frame to hold the liquid and the design for the instrumentation spacecraft.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The nine tracks on the LP are well-served by Blanco’s new commitment to instrumentation.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2021
  • Some of the instrumentation is a bit more forceful, like on a recording of a live performance.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Here the organ joins the regal instrumentation over the steady rhythm of the full percussion battery ablaze with snare drum and cymbals.
    — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Barker describes their process as backwards, with Beasley singing the hook and then building the instrumentation around it.
    — Reed Dunlea, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The required instrumentation will likely involve state-of-the-art cameras on wide-field telescopes that scan the sky.
    — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 24 June 2021
  • The plane’s black box has been neatly removed from the instrumentation panel.
    — Nicholas Mancusi, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
  • View Photos The dash panel is a good one, with full instrumentation and good graphics.
    — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
  • Like a Tesla, the instrumentation is focused on a central screen and head-up display.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
  • The instrumentation, what little there is of it, is straightforward and even kind of pretty.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Sill arranged for Spector to work with the two men at Atlantic, where their use of strings and heavy instrumentation became part of his repertoire.
    — Star Tribune, 17 Jan. 2021
  • All many people needed was the opening pangs of the instrumentation to go into their own world with their favorite cuts.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Within a month, Davis formed a new band and, for the next 20 years, performed a hybrid form of music based on the amplified and electric instrumentation of rock.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • As a veteran soul singer, Fiona expertly finds the pockets of groove in the track’s live instrumentation.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But there is so much else going on with the record, which bounces around through different types of instrumentation and arrangements as well as moods and feels.
    — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Chicago changed the sound of rock music in the late ‘60s by including jazz instrumentation into their work.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024

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