gong

Example Sentences

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“Eureka!” she cried, and then clapped her hand over her mouth, for the word rang through the hall like a gong.

From Literature

Danger feels suspended in the soft-blue light, in which the lion’s tail and the round, silvery moon, balanced just-so, are poised like a raised mallet and gong.

From The Wall Street Journal

I wasn’t watching movies thinking I was gong to make movies.

From Los Angeles Times

They play Feyenoord in the Europa League on Thursday and their squad is gong to be stretched.

From BBC

Combined with the coloured, shimmering floor and walls, and a soundtrack of muffled voices, gongs and bird calls, it all creates a powerful if unnerving feeling of floating in another realm.

From BBC