Example sentences for: gongs

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Joged: A whole family of dances shares this name, performed to the music of an orchestra of bamboo xylophones and gongs.

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

  • It’s essential that the craftsmen who make the gongs have a musical ear so that they are able to hear whether the sets of gongs are suitable for the five-tone Balinese scale.


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