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

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

That shifts the whole thing and that also shifts the drummer, because now on the high hat, he’s got different work to do.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2017

I remember the carriage, the horse going slowly, and up ahead the back of the driver with his varnished high hat, and Catherine Barkley sitting beside me.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway