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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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