How to Use cymbal in a Sentence

cymbal

noun
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  • After the four click Count-In, choose one of the drums or cymbals in the kit and tap it twice per beat.
    — John Anealio, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2012
  • The bass part moves around, and it is forced to balance with the cymbal, which is the highest pitch.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Davis on his bass way down low; Jones up high, on top of that cymbal.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The high school senior is part of the six-cymbal section in the drum line of the school’s 60-member marching band.
    — Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 27 Feb. 2022
  • For some, clearly, hope bubbled anew with each big clash of the cymbals.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir and Nate Schweber, New York Times, 21 May 2017
  • Let someone try that, acting the martyr for the sake of love, an’ not be a tinkling cymbal?
    — Bohumil Hrabal, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • And his eyes fluttered closed as the cymbal shivered and the piano plunked its final note.
    — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2020
  • The drummer, Dwayne Keith, brought a sampler pack and cymbals.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The cymbal rolls and crashes spread throughout the venue but were surprisingly cut off by a conch blown from the rear right, and then the rear left.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Azar's drums shift seamlessly back and forth between cymbal-and-toms grandeur and snare stomp.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 25 Nov. 2019
  • His left hand, in particular, seems to comment on the music, like a cymbal in a drum set.
    — New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The team has a right to think so, one supposes, but even that contract - which was rolled out with flourishes and the crash of cymbals - is a bit of a bait-and-switch.
    — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 24 May 2017
  • In the evening, bells, drums and cymbals announce the prayer ceremony, and flowers and candles are set afloat.
    — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Then came a small band, blaring out an anthem with four trumpets, a tuba, cymbals, and two drums.
    — David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Jeremy Benshish, who plays drums and cymbals, grew up in South Elgin.
    — Kathy Cichon, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 Dec. 2017
  • On a recent spring night, the brassy horn from a saxophonist and bright beating of a cymbal played from the upstairs bar of the dark black and brick facade.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • Zildjian has turned out as many as a million cymbals in a calendar year.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Hanslick was within his rights to bemoan a surfeit of blaring brass and of cymbal crashes.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But snare drum rim shots and cymbal crashes may figure into the equation.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • The pressure continues to mount, to bear down and, partly through the immense shimmer of cymbals, to expand.
    — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
  • The competition at Canton Memorial Field House brought in groups to keep the beat, strut their stuff and slam their cymbals.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Amid a cacophony of clanging cymbals and honking klaxons, Maria, a chef in her late 50s, stands in front of one of the crosses.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The drums, played by Brian DiCrescenzo (who has since left the band), are loose and improvisatory, the wash of cymbals near-constant.
    — Michael Hamad, courant.com, 23 June 2017
  • But the exact nuances of the high notes, the bass riffs, the vibrato and cymbals preserved on the master recordings that did burn that June day—those have gone quiet.
    — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian, 11 June 2019
  • Unlike her quiet moments with Jake, though, straight up drums and cymbals play during this shot.
    — refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
  • Before the parade began, the crowd clapped to a group of children and adults chanting, drumming and playing hand cymbals onstage.
    — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 6 July 2019
  • Each pad bore the tone of a different drum or cymbal, with several options programmed in.
    — Jim Allen, Popular Mechanics, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The sonorous rumble of a sousaphone laid down the low end, while cymbals, hi-hats, snare drums and bass drum offered the dynamic beats that elevate dance-floor denizens like a drug.
    — Morena Duwe, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Adele started the last carpool karaoke episode with a bang—literally, by banging cymbals to wake James Corden up and take him to work.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Drumsticks tap a cymbal, and from inside that bright precise measure, a jazzy rhythm guitar emerges over a buoyant bass line.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018

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