Example sentences for: percussion

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

  • Here it takes the equivalent of a percussion bomb to get anyone's attention.

  • The coinages and cadences of the Tyndale Bible--"eat, drink, and be merry"; "a fool's paradise"; "fight the good fight"; "suffer the children"; "the salt of the earth"; "in his right mind"; "the powers that be"--and of the King James Version have for three centuries served both as psychic libretto and as percussion section for English speakers everywhere.

  • The intensity of the percussion was reduced and this problem was eliminated.

  • The güiro, a percussion instrument made of a notched dried gourd, was developed by the Taíno Indians.

  • Ofanim , a long biblical cantata for two matched ensembles of wind, brass, and percussion; two boy choirs; female voice; and computer; is a highly operatic piece of the sort Puccini would have understood.


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