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
There is even a gong, which is used to celebrate business milestones, new funding rounds or anything else worth marking with a ceremonial bang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The band's Noel Gallagher was in attendance to collect the gong for songwriter of the year.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
Speilberg's Grammy gong will sit nicely alongside his Oscar ornaments won for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, his Emmys for ER and Animaniacs, as well as his Tony trophy for A Strange Loop.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
As I cleaned myself, a gong rang out.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
For the uninitiated, a sound bath is where a practitioner plays crystal or Tibetan sound bowls, gongs and chimes in a soothing way.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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
As it now exists, it captures the supernatural tingle of little bells, as well as the heart-throb of gongs, all sounding off in the misty distance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 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
Later the gongs of fire wagons and the clopping hoofs of horses came from the direction of the street.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
“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
Those who weren’t gonged were rated by the judges on a 1-to-10 scale.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2017
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
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
At one point, in a truly shameless bid for self-referential humor, Sierra is disrupted in bed by the gonging tu-dum of the Netflix logo and an ad for another Netflix holiday movie.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
Each episode begins with an eerie drone, gonging over otherwise silent images of the cast meaningfully staring at things.
From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2020
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
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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