piper - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • pay: He who pays the piper should call the tune!
  • follow: Will the children ever return from following the piper 's tune?
  • include: Irish and Scottish musicians also feature in Mayhew's report, including a blind Irish piper, and the English and German street bands.
  • have: You don't have to be Scottish to have a piper playing on the most important day of your life.

Converse of subject

  • lead: A party had arrived that morn ( led by these three Pipers ) To dedicate a Tablet in - Cathedral of " Wipers " .
  • accompany: The cortege would be led through the town accompanied by pipers, horn and flute players and flashlight bearers.

Adjective modifier

  • pied: He may want to change his user name to the pied piper from now on.
  • Northumbrian: A Northumbrian piper was at Morpeth station last week ( Monday 12 December 2005 ) to greet a new service from Virgin Trains.
  • lone: The last key performance was the lone piper playing the haunting Lest We Forget.
  • Scots: Among Scots pipers, Neil Dickie takes the view that his tunes should be played exactly as he wrote them.
  • Scottish: The sound of a Scottish piper playing a lament filled the air.
  • Irish: Irish and Scottish musicians also feature in Mayhew's report, including a blind Irish piper, and the English and German street bands.

Modifies a noun

  • today: He is responsible for some beautiful tunes which are commonly played by pipers today.

Noun used with modifier

  • uilleann: Most uilleann pipers in Scotland are spread around the country.
  • highland: Or employ professional Irish or salsa dancers, a magician, a highland piper or a comedian.
  • eleven: Eleven pipers piping and twelve drummers drumming is a simple case of the band getting too big.
  • solo: Unique in the UK, Thistle Piping can provide anything from solo pipers to full pipe bands.
  • town: But the town pipers supplemented their basic town piping income by giving recitals and playing at dances and weddings.
  • bag: So when did the term piper begin to mean Bag piper?

Possessives

  • son: A big occasion was a concert in the Anstice Hall when I recited ' Tom, Tom the piper's son ' .

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