How to Use kora in a Sentence

kora

noun
Definition of koranext
  • Images of the broken kora and the TSA notice have been shared widely on social media.
    — Joe Penney, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Outside, pilgrims walked around the building to complete a kora, or holy circuit.
    — Edward Wong, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
  • The base of the jovial groove as the little group walked was a lilting, repeating riff on the kora, the 21-string harp-lute that a musician played with its base propped against his torso, plucking with his thumbs.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The kora, too, is a stringed instrument with a largely percussive charter.
    — New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
  • As the designer sat in the middle of the floor painstakingly applying tiny beads to sneakers, a musician played a kora, a West African string instrument.
    — Vincent Boucher, The Cut, 14 July 2017
  • Two female Algerian singers, a fiery gypsy violin, and a Malian kora chime in over a rhythm section that knows dub from djembe.
    — Gregory Taylor, WIRED, 1 June 2001
  • Sissoko is one of Mali’s most famous players of the kora, a traditional string instrument that was played in royal courts and is now celebrated around the world.
    — Joe Penney, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020
  • To walk within this company was to be immersed in milky balafon, twangy kora, and crashing trash can, with occasional sharp squiggles of tone from a wooden flute.
    — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Hundreds, if not thousands, of pilgrims from across the Tibetan regions of China come here to begin a two-week kora, or meditative trek, around Kawagebo Mountain.
    — Georgia Freedman, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2017
  • A musician started playing the kora to a backing track that included notes on the circularity of existence ascribed to a Sioux shaman named Black Elk.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 13 July 2017
  • The monks operate an agriculture and animal husbandry school, and design and build koras, a type of West African harp that is played during a transcendent daily musical mass.
    — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
  • This set is an electric affair for Touré, who normally plays acoustically and with more-traditional West African instruments like the forefather of the banjo, the kora.
    — Paul De Revere, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In front of them, a United Nations of string instruments congregated with violas da gamba, vihuelas, a harp and a potbellied kora from Mali, alongside an oud and a violin.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Six instrumentalists and two vocalists improvise on compositions of Mitchell and of Malian kora virtuoso Sissoko.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017

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