gong

In the corner, a gong sits in silence, waiting to be struck.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

A gong and hammer function as a doorbell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 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

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

Downstairs the gong pealed a solemn call to lunch.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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

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

I cautiously walked into the alley, alert for anything unusual, but there was no sound of drums or gongs or noise at all.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

“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

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 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