xylophone
Example Sentences
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Conductor in rehearsal: “Violins, you’re scratchy and flat! Trombones — don’t bray like mating zebras! Kettledrums, what extraordinarily horrendous noise! Xylophone: unbelievably grotesque — just quit! Otherwise — perfect.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022
I can’t keep track of Anthony to Xylophone.
From Slate • Jan. 23, 2021
In 1962, the band was given the chance to join The Tommy Wallis and Beryl Xylophone Team supporting yodelling crooner Frank Ifield at the Embassy Cinema, Peterborough.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2010
Xylophone and other musical instrument; together with a brief description of nearly every musical instrument used in ancient or modern times.
From The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street by Doughty, Francis Worcester
They use wooden strips of different lengths, exactly like the Xylophone.
From The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island by Finlay, Roger Thompson
Vocabulary lists containing xylophone
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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Music to My Ears: Instrumental Vocab
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2015 Spelling Bee - Words from Round 2
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