gong
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Her eyes penetrated mine as I waited for a loud Tibetan gong to sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The first was in 1994, when the Fed hit that proverbial gong by launching a pre-emptive strike on inflation that would push the federal-funds rate target to 6%, from 3%, in one year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The band's Noel Gallagher was in attendance to collect the gong for songwriter of the year.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Speaking about Buckley's nomination for the best actress gong, O'Farrell said she was delighted.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
I ring the doorbell and a gong sounds.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
The annual award show - regarded as music's biggest night - hands out gongs to artists in a huge range of genres.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
More than 1,150 people received gongs in the latest list, which is decided by an honours committee.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
A somatic therapist and actor, he lost most of his most treasured possessions, including the irreplaceable Tibetan singing bowls and gongs he’s collected over 15 years of world travels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
“Election Night” was free of blingy graphics, screeching chyrons and doom-soaked gongs and bells at the top of each hour.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2024
Some idiophones, like gongs, ring at many different pitches when they are struck.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
“No, I wasn’t gonged, thank goodness,” Ms. Mohawk wrote in a 2016 post on the blog Rockasteria.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
But the critics have also been saying that, as a unit, the Beach Boys are singing well, and not fit to be gonged just yet.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2012
The weather had begun to seep through our Polartec defenses, numbing our joints; water and pen ink were solids; cheese sticks gonged against canteens.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2012
Meanwhile, as a standup, he was being gonged off stage at have-a-go comedy nights before he'd said a word – for looking young and wearing silly jumpers.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2011
The metal trash can gonged as he spat the gum inside.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
We rode through a forest that smelled like sage and pine, the cowbells still gonging their ancient melody ahead of us.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
A languid, sometimes portentous composition, the sequence of scraping, clanging, creaking, gonging sounds is as aurally prismatic as the colors are visually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
Because I need those seven hours of gonging around.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2012
The gonging of its bells was so close that, standing on the balcony, I could feel their vibrations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2011
The clicking of gears that she had felt almost her whole life was now more like the gonging of a bell.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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