tympany

Example Sentences

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For “The French Dispatch,” Desplat paired acclaimed pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in unusual duets with harp, tympany, bassoon or tuba, drawing from a wide range of references, including Erik Satie and Thelonious Monk.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2021

Her agitated testimony offered a tympany of accusations that struck blow after blow at the base of O.J.

From Time Magazine Archive

A tympany beat and the sound track filled with violins.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Various grades and degrees of tympany may be noted.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

Nine in ten of our modern examples in this kind, when one comes to analyze them, will be found to consist of stolen ideas, combined with what Southey would call ‘bubble, and bladder, and tympany.’

From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord