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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "concertina" in a sentence

    concertina example sentences

    concertina


    1. The entire wall reluctantly folded at each hinge and could, with difficulty, be manhandled in a concertina fashion until it was more or less tucked away at each side


    2. On orders from Gifard, two soldiers put a large wooden plank over the rolls of concertina wire, so that he and Ingrid could cross outside of the defensive perimeter


    3. The bunker was also partially underground and surrounded by a ten-foot-high fence topped with concertina wire


    4. From the distance we could hear a lilting melody played on a concertina that we affectionately called “Loewe’s Song


    5. There was a brief interlude while a stand-in was obtained, a much larger stuffed hare that would only fit inside my hat once much of its innards were removed and it resembled a leporine concertina


    6. His aquiline features appeared to have imploded so that the face seemed squat, crinkled like a concertina that has had air thrust out of it


    7. The man with the concertina


    8. One plays the concertina and gets her to dance


    9. ) A pity we've no concertina


    10. ) Where's the concertina?

    11. The concertina? He's bethought himself of it


    12. NIKÍTA [lies down on the bench] Oh, it's dull, it's dull! [To Akoulína] Where's the concertina?


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    "concertina" definitions

    coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle


    free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds


    collapse like a concertina