high-hat

Example Sentences

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"I get dressed up in my full regalia - lab coat, rosette and two foot high hat - and go door-to-door asking for signatures," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023

He drew maximum sound from a minimal drum kit, consisting of one snare, a bass drum, two tom-toms, four cymbals and a high hat.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

Here comes one now, rattling catastrophically, like Max Roach whaling on the high hat.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

I was so inspired by Clyde’s rhythms that in a couple of years my tapping grew into drum sticks with a full drum set of high hat, cymbals, bass and snare drums, with lessons.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2019

Oh, to wear such a great coat with large buttons and a velvet collar and a squashed-down high hat with a ribbon cockade in the band!

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith