How to Use instrumentation in a Sentence

instrumentation

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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
  • The main instrumentation does kick in during the window of the last Heardle guess, though.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 22 May 2022
  • 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
  • Stapleton and his band’s clothes and instrumentation did not change at all from song to song.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2022
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To that end, the pair used different instrumentation to achieve the effect of tightening the knot of suspense, foreshadowing the evil which was to come.
    — Roy Trakin, Variety, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The resemblance is more than essence and includes melody and instrumentation.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Then, scientists can study the samples with the heavy instrumentation that Earth labs allow.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The digital instrumentation is offset in the center of the dash outside the driver's normal line of sight, and the shallow screen doesn't offer much in the way of customization.
    — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The grab-bag instrumentation of the chamber concerts is one of the festival’s major draws for me, and the length of the changeovers is certainly no fault of the commendable Tanglewood crew.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Re-energized from a switch to a new label (Mercury Records), the former boy bander tries new sounds through use of U.K. garage instrumentation.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 21 July 2023
  • The jazzy, big-band orchestra is bigger this time, with more instrumentation in every new song.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 June 2022
  • Detailed analysis with state-of-the-art instrumentation should yield an even higher count and a smaller size threshold.
    — Amir Siraj, Scientific American, 5 July 2023
  • He was revered for his skills on the timbales (timpani/kettledrums), as well as for his big band instrumentation and jazz harmonies with Afro-Cuban music.
    — Veronica Villafañe, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Through smooth verses and raw instrumentation, the RCA signee reassures loved ones that late is better than never.
    — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 21 June 2022
  • There's so many different aspects to it, instrumentation-wise, that guides me.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • As for his toolbox, Metzger used castanets and finger cymbals because they had been used in the song instrumentation.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Bands in the 19th century had a wide range of formats and instrumentation, but all-brass ensembles were very common and often known as cornet bands.
    — Catherine Baty, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2023
  • The artwork, everything about the music, the melodies, the production, the harmony, the instrumentation — all the choices worked together to create this world.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2022
  • In the process, the singers meet in the middle, using a production that walks the line between Moore’s usual classic country instrumentation and Block’s more progressive sound.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2022

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