gong

Her eyes penetrated mine as I waited for a loud Tibetan gong to sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Weeks after winning the best new artist Grammy, she bagged the evening's most coveted Album Of The Year gong, beating out indie singer Sam Fender, rockers Wolf Alice, pop star Lily Allen and rapper Dave.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

I wasn’t watching movies thinking I was gong to make movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

When the gong rang for the next round we pushed through the near-sacred quiet to the herd of children outside.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

More than 1,150 people received gongs in the latest list, which is decided by an honours committee.

From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025

Combined with the coloured, shimmering floor and walls, and a soundtrack of muffled voices, gongs and bird calls, it all creates a powerful if unnerving feeling of floating in another realm.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025

“Sky Islands” evokes the magical Philippines upper rainforests, where sounds scintillate in a thinned atmosphere that gives gongs new glories, where animals capable of great ascension exclusively live, where the mind is ready for enlightenment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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

It was the only sound in camp, the only sound in Owens Valley, the mess hall bells, their gongs echoing between the Inyo Range and the nearby Sierras, their furthest ripples soaking into dry sand.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

“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

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

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

At the time, innovation meant linemen gonging their counterparts' helmets.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2012

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