A tambourine was played upon, a bell was rung, and a flaming banjo went singing around the room.
The game was soon taken up, and before long, one tambourine after another was flying over the heads of the frenzied crew.
She hums and beats gently, then restores the tambourine to the sleepy TIBBY, who, waking, has placed a piece of apple in her mouth.
TABBY, tambourine in one hand and apple in the other, smiles stolidly.
Lavinia shook her head in the hopelessness of the reformer, and took up her tambourine frames again with a sigh.
When he had done, Marley waited for Lavinia's comment, but she rocked on a moment and then held her tambourine frames at arm's length to study the sweet pea she was making.
We have bought a tambourine and a tarabouka, and are on the look-out for a man who can sing well, so as to have fantasia on board.
Then your coat comes flying over, and the tambourine is thumped and rattled, the bell never ceasing to ring energetically.
Now if you are going to do any writing, get the paper or slate, the pencil will be in your waistcoat-pocket, and you can use the tambourine as a desk.
Then he proceeded to show that a tambourine and moral degradation were synonymous terms, and a fiddle and vicious propensities wholly inseparable.
This young woman had draped herself in a long parti-colored shawl and she held a tambourine in her hand.
Then she went to one side where stood a white goat with gilded horns and put down her tambourine and took up two swords; and with these in her hands she resumed her dance.
She held a tambourinein her hand and she was twisting and turning in cadence to her own song.
We play on thetambourine and dance Hungarian dances.
Darling, is it for the battle of love that your heart is beating the tambourinein your breast!
When she had put all the eggs into the hat she offered it to my brother kneeling on one knee, and she touched the rim of her tambourine with her lips.
Now she held her tambourine above her head; sometimes advanced it with one hand, while the other ran over its little bells with a dexterous rapidity that brought to mind the girls of Herculaneum.
The bath-keeper sings enchantingly to the tambourine and dances and says, "I am going, O my mother, to fill my jar!
It was the voice and tambourine of Ensign Sand, quick upon her opportunity.
A tambourinehung loosely from the hand nearest her face; the other lay, palm outward in its abandonment, among the folds that covered her limbs.
Deprived of her tambourine she nevertheless rejoiced exceedingly.
From the rim of each tambourine depended a metallic ball, so placed that the least movement of the hand brought it in contact with the resonant tympanum, which caused a strange, continuous undercurrent of pulsating sound.
In one hand each of them carried a small tambourine and with the other he agitated a little bell.
Then the faint clamor of a gong, the trill of a couple of flutes, and a few muffled blows on a tambourinewere heard.
Here sat three fiddlers, and beside them stood a frantic man with his hair on end, perspiration streaming down his cheeks, and a tambourinequivering in his hand.
I shall get a tambourine also, and perhaps some day a guitar.
I have long thought, you know, that a pretty tambourine would look wonderfully well in my parlour; and I think, if I could buy one cheap, that a French picture would give it a fashionable air.
The triangle, side drum, and tambourinego best with harmony in the upper register; cymbals, bass drum and gong with harmony in the lower.
The triangle, side drum and tambourine are capable of various rhythmic figures.
She frenziedly waved the tambourine above her head.
Conny caught up a tambourine and Patty a worn-out pack of cards, and they clattered down the tin-covered back stairs.
He blew upon his head, with a whistling sound made between his teeth; he turned his tambourine on this side and that side of his ribs, behind his back, and then brought it again over the child.
He beat the tambourine in the child's ears, during which there was great silence among the other Savages who were in the same cabin.
He beat his tambourine in the ears of this poor little child, who was almost choking with tears.
A darkchecked little girl, with bright black eyes, stood by, shaking a tambourine set round with tinkling bells, and thumping it on its parchment head.
Garbed in high red boots, short socks, skirts of mixed and gorgeous hues and a meager waist, wide open at the front, she stood with a bright tambourine held aloft, poised for a gypsy dancer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tambourine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: drum; drumstick; kettledrum; snare; tambourine; timbrel; tympanum
