Words similar to viola

Example sentences for: viola

How can you use “viola” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

He played in a Beatles-style band, then embraced the viola out of the despairing recognition that, on the guitar, he would never match the fireworks of Jimi Hendrix, his idol.
It feels like an ancient epic, with the viola as Gilgamesh, wandering the earth.
At his Philharmonic appearance during his most recent visit, he performed a viola concerto by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, who not only wrote the piece for him but was kind enough to derive a theme cabalistically from the letters in Bashmet's name.
The viola tends to be plaintively melancholic, or else to squawk, ugly-duckling style, like a bassoon or an English horn.
In Rome, La Repubblica said in a front-page comment by Sandro Viola that "seldom in history has a country received from the same person so many reasons for hope and then so many afflictions as ...