Example sentences for: cymbals

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

  • At 4pm the monks can be observed at prayer, blowing the groaning horns and banging drums and cymbals in a red and gold chapel.

  • Although the music may seem strange to the unaccustomed ear, it certainly won’t put you to sleep; cymbals and drums guarantee your alertness.

  • It is also helpful to know that the masks, painted faces, and costumes identify each character’s social role and personality, and that the live music, with its gongs and cymbals, often functions like a film score to emphasize the action on stage.

  • Now a voicespells deliverance from your half-headstabbed by familiars of pain, old noisemakersof the embroidered white pillowcase,deliverance from Mass Avenue's repertorycompany of sirens, racing racing racing,you can't silence the one who's clashing cymbals, who's dropping syllables, who stokesthe day's rages, the one who always co-signsyour black pages--or can you?

  • One dalang (puppeteer), accompanied by a band of musicians playing oboe, drums, gongs, and cymbals, acts out all the parts and produces all the different voices.


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