84 examples of tambourines in sentences

The children are provided with drums, cymbals, tambourines, and triangles, and keep time to music played on the piano.

"If we are poorer than ever, we can take up a collection to defray the expenses; Julia and Kitty would look so attractive going about with tambourines!

Some have shown great skill in the manufacture of mandolines, guitars, and tambourines.

pan, m., bread, loaf of bread. pandero, m., tambourine.

sonaja, f., sonaja, kind of timbrel, a rustic musical instrument made of a thin strip of wood about four inches wide brought round in the shape of a tube or drum, and having small metal discs fixed in holes at regular intervals like those of a tambourine.

She tooalas, for the mistakes of young taste!had also introduced painted tambourines, and swathed the lamps in wonderful turbans of puffed tissue paper.

My dreams were filled with visions of shows, Punch's opera, rope-dancers, tumblers, etc. etc., and my ears rang with the music of fiddles, bugles, tambourines, and bass drums.

The good Sisters of the Society of the Broken Heart had taught Dolores to sing beautifully, to play upon the piano and the guitar, to embroider, to paint mauve roses on pink tambourines and many other useful arts, graces and accomplishmentsbut they had not taught her practical morality nor anything of cooking, marketing, plain sewing, house-cleaning or anything else of house-keeping.

Cracked Mary: Tambourines and fiddles and pipesmelodeons and the whistling of drums.

The music for this consisted of a piano, banjo guitar and numerous tambourines.

The negroes being naturally born with a great sense of rhythm the songs were not in the same tempo as the songs of the whites but were of a jazz tempo and with the banjo and tambourines it makes one think of the stories of the African jungles.

"When this shout starts the tambourine players will begin shaking the tambourines and shortly the majority of the congregation would be shouting, moaning or praying.

The tambourines players bounce around in time to the music.

While the above is in progress there are other workers talking and singing to the rest of the mourners and when two or three "Come Through" at once there is great shouting rejoicing, clapping of hands and the tambourines continue to clang and the choir members dance and this process continues for hours or until the preachers become so exausted with their exhortations and contortions that the meeting is adjourned.

The young men provide themselves with presents for the girls, generally consisting of combs for the hair and sweets, and going straight to the Darbár of the village they visit, they proclaim their arrival loudly by beating their drums and tambourines.

As one of those present played on the piano, the tambourine was played in the curtained space and thrown over the curtain; bells were rung; the guitar was thrummed a little.

Afterwards the guitar was elevated above the curtain; the tambourine, which was by Mrs. Keeler placed upon a stick held up within the enclosure, was made to whirl by the motion of the stick.

When the guitar was held up, and when the tambourine was made to whirl, both of these were to the right of the Medium, chiefly behind Mrs. Gillespie; they were just where they might have been produced by the right arm of the Medium, had it been free.

The drumming was probably upon the tambourine.

The sphere of activity was between the Medium and Mr. Yost, and most of the phenomena occurred, as, for example, the whirling of the tambourine, behind Mrs. Gillespie.

Suddenly, with another yell, he leaped into the air, and, with Rosa waltzing demurely in front of him, began the fantastic part of the schuplattle, which consists, as Jimmie says, "of making tambourines all over yourself, spanking yourself on the arms, thighs, legs, and soles of your feet, and the crown of your head, and winding up by boxing your partner's ears or kissing her, just as you feel inclined.

O my lover LXXX How to say I love you LXXXI Hark, love, to the tambourines LXXXII Over the roofs the honey-coloured moon LXXXIII

LXXXI Hark, love, to the tambourines Of the minstrels in the street, And one voice that throbs and soars Clear above the clashing time!

Next came the minstrels, playing merrily on tabor, fife, sacbut, rebec, and tambourine.

And while old Greenford searched for a small coin, Jocelyn placed a piece of silver in the tambourine.

84 examples of  tambourines  in sentences