high-hat
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A friend admonished him for the high-hat dismissal, and a chastened Mr. Lloyd fished out the script for a closer look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
My eyes digest the immensity of fallen trees bracketing the trail, the high-hat shaped fungi that spring from trunks and the thick folds of lichen hanging from branches that obscure the far-off canopy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
The artist’s new EP opens with a set of interlocking rhythms connecting a four-on-the-floor bass drum, vibraphone-suggestive mid-range loops, a conga in the background and some crazy high-hat action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2019
At some point the yearning is answered, at first chthonically, by the bass drum, later by the insistent jump of the high-hat.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2017
I've got a silk high-hat as slick as goose-grease, and a long jimswinger coat, and pants that are always ironed as sharp as a knife-blade in front.
From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben
Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step.
From Time Magazine Archive
The high-hatted critic of the London Times meditated upon Durante's nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said a salesgirl in high-hatted Hattie Carnegie's: "A woman who bought six hats last year will buy only four this year."
From Time Magazine Archive
The handsome, high-hatted romantic poured out novels as naturally and easily as she breathed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyone not an Englishman is upon landing likely to notice an elderly, gray-haired, high-hatted English gentleman who looks like a retired army officer or cleric and who generally carries an umbrella.
From The Secrets of the German War Office by Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
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