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Example sentences for "tambourines"

Lexicographically close words:
tamarisks; tambien; tambo; tambour; tambourine; tambours; tame; tamed; tameless; tamely
  1. When they had ended, they took the green cloth covering from the tomb of Sheikh Adi, and, followed by the Cawals playing on their tambourines and flutes, walked with it round the outer court.

  2. So he threw himself on the ground and slept till the morning, when the damsels came to him with tambourines and other musical instruments, according to their wont.

  3. All night the noise of music and dancing was heard, striking drums and tambourines of hollow wood, at which the natives passed their time.

  4. Bands of bells were round their ankles, and they danced with very quiet countenances, at the same time singing their canticles to the sound of tambourines and flutes played by two musicians.

  5. And how about the tambourines and torches?

  6. The negroes being naturally born with a great sense of rhythm the songs were not in the same tempo as the songs of the whites but were of a jazz tempo and with the banjo and tambourines it makes one think of the stories of the African jungles.

  7. When this shout starts the tambourine players will begin shaking the tambourines and shortly the majority of the congregation would be shouting, moaning or praying.

  8. The tambourines players bounce around in time to the music.

  9. LXXXI Hark, love, to the tambourines Of the minstrels in the street, And one voice that throbs and soars Clear above the clashing time!

  10. The Nacimiento (meaning being born) is lighted with candles, and little folks dance gayly around it to the music of tambourines and their own sweet voices, joyously singing one of the pretty Nativity songs.

  11. When the moment comes for placing the hand upon the keys, there is going to break out such a racket of timbrels, tambourines and rustic drums that nothing else can be heard.

  12. Rap on the tables in the dark and rattle tambourines like that one with the knot of ribbons which hangs upon the wall of the salon?

  13. Then the vision faded, the tambourines and cymbals rattled again.

  14. Oh, monsieur, the tambourines and the rapping on the table!

  15. The Egyptians made their drums and African tambourines resound.

  16. But when he came home to Mizpah, his daughter was just coming out to meet him with tambourines and choral dances.

  17. The voices behind had faded away; and the air was vibrant of voiceless voices, of pixy tambourines beating the silence.

  18. And during the night, the wind sprang up shaking all the pixie tambourines in the pines and the hemlocks, and setting the poplars and cottonwoods clapping their hands.

  19. She wanted to clap her hands as the gay, twinkling cottonwoods were clapping theirs to the sunset; to dance and beat gypsy tambourines as the pines were throbbing and harping and clicking to the age-old melodies of Pan.

  20. Very German-bandish this dissonance sounds, with a variety of horror thrown in liberally in the shape of tambourines and triangles.

  21. Tambourines and fifes predominate in the next orchestral prelude.

  22. In the mean time, Gerald hears the fifes and tambourines of his regiment and goes to answer the roll-call.

  23. Something like approaching thunder is heard in the distance, which proves to be the noise of about fifty tambourines announcing the arrival of the procession.

  24. The slumbering multitude became animated, the tambourines sounded, songs and cries arose; the hour of the sacrifice had come.

  25. The discordant tones of the voices and instruments drew nearer, and now droning songs mingled with the sound of the tambourines and cymbals.

  26. The banjos rattled and the tambourines Jing-jing-jingled in the hands of Queens.

  27. Tambourines to the foreground) The hosts were sandalled, and their wings were fire!

  28. Fibi, Vinos, hang up your tambourines on the nail.

  29. The tambourines of the gipsies were still.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tambourines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.