The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly.
1 A concerned listener once asked: Why not take clarinet lessons to improve your embouchure ? '
2 The breath is projected into the embouchure with modulated force.
3 He delivers it with an open embouchure , head thrown back.
4 This we were informed was the embouchure of the Somerset river from the Victoria N'yanza.
5 The width of its embouchure suggests an Asiatic rival of the Amazon and La Plata.
6 According to Marmol, Mamora was built by Jakob-el-Mansour to defend the embouchure of the river.
7 It afterwards takes a southerly direction, before it reaches its embouchure in the Rio Grande.
8 Its position was south of the Gyndes embouchure , and it might be reckoned as lying upon either river.
9 Furthermore it seemed now satisfactorily settled that all the inland rivers as yet discovered found the same common embouchure .
10 It had shoals off its embouchure ; and these, he rightly enough fancied, would induce Captain Cuffe to be wary.
11 It's all about the embouchure .
12 You have a weak embouchure .
13 It has, from ten to twelve miles above its embouchure into Lake Ontario, one of the finest cataracts in the world.
14 In vain I shifted my aching legs and worked my benumbed hands, looking out ahead for the embouchure of the river.
15 Little or no water can descend to the Nile from this river, otherwise there would be some trifling current at the embouchure .
16 The old Hwai embouchure , running from the Lake Hung-tseh to the sea, no longer exists; it dissipates itself in canals and salt flats.
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