Example sentences for: gongs

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

  • 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.

  • West of Klungkung, a narrow lane leads to the village of Tihingan, one of only two places in Bali where the gongs for gamelan orchestras are made.

  • Altman had me hooked from the credits, in which the camera cruises high above an eerie topography--both parched and veined with swamps--while the composer, Mark Isham, serves up off-the-beat thumps and hollow brass gongs, and fragments of cell-phone conversations remain just on the far side of audibility.

  • (Danny Elfman's crashing gongs and chopping-blade strings pound your head, too.)

  • The orchestra of rebab (bowed flute), tawak-tawk (gongs), and gunang (double-headed drums) plays music with a distinctly Middle Eastern flavor.


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