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concertina

[kon-ser-tee-nuh] / ˌkɒn sərˈti nə /


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Their songs weave in Irish lilting, set against a lively mix of drums, fiddles, flutes, harps, banjos, cello and concertina - skills honed over years of playing house parties, pub céilís and traditional festivals.

From BBC May 16, 2026

Behind the concertina wire encircling the bases, Germans could experience American bowling alleys and drive-in theaters.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

May’s next film, “The Heartbreak Kid,” adapted from a Neil Simon hit and co-starring her daughter Jeannie Berlin, is a beautifully calibrated and funny social critique wrapped in concertina wire.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2024

After weeks of desperation, migrants pass a toddler under a tangle of concertina wire strung across the edge of U.S. soil.

From Seattle Times May 6, 2024

"I feel like 'bleat, bleating,' but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don't want to steal focus, you know what I mean?"

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

For the journey to London, the stand – which concertinas down into a relatively small space – will be put into an aluminium crate that regulates temperature and humidity.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

The museum, opened in October 2011, now has more than 400 accordions, flutinas, concertinas and other related artifacts, ephemera and memorabilia, dating from 1820 to the present day.

From Washington Times Nov. 14, 2015

Literature, she says, has the potential to give us texts in which “the experiences of the old unfold and collapse back, like concertinas, into narratives that are rarely reducible to age itself.”

From The New Yorker Oct. 1, 2015

No restaurateur or chef worth his Himalayan salt will fail to conjure up the image of the tiny, colorful village, with its exotic, weather-hardened inhabitants speaking Gaelic and playing concertinas in a musky, ancient tavern.

From Time Aug. 10, 2011

Harmoniums, pianos, concertinas, mouth organs, gramophones, tin trumpets, and voices uncertainly controlled, poured forth their strains, mingling and clashing.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

Their third-floor apartment now sits at eye level, crushed under piles of concertinaed concrete slabs from the OPP 26 building in coastal Caraballeda, one of the districts hardest hit by the quakes.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

After a season that's been so tiring under difficult circumstances and concertinaed it will be important to rotate.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2021

In the lift, once the doors have concertinaed closed, he says cheerily to another doctor: “This young lady has come to discuss a donation her family have made to the department.”

From The Guardian Jun. 3, 2017

One particular cost saver is time: the gap from finished design to finished product is concertinaed into hours, rather than months as the 3D fabricator makes many components in to one united piece.

From BBC Oct. 11, 2013

But she had died, nine years ago, and his father had contracted, as if a weight had settled on him and concertinaed him downward and inward.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“The biggest issue is we have heard and read many comments about poverty and the concertinaing of wealth in fewer and fewer hands,” said Peters.

From The Guardian Oct. 19, 2017

Then Beetle, concertinaing his books, observed to Winton, 'When King's really on tap he's an interestin' dog.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard




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