gong
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In the corner, a gong sits in silence, waiting to be struck.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
On Wednesday, he wore a red scarf as he struck the gong to kick off trading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Solomon will go up against the Geordie duo for this year's gong as well as Sir David Attenborough in his 100th birthday year, Traitors and chat show host Claudia Winkleman and Alison Hammond.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
A gong and hammer function as a doorbell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
He pushed the bell, hearing the gong sound softly within.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
More than 1,150 people received gongs in the latest list, which is decided by an honours committee.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
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 ● Sep. 26, 2025
A somatic therapist and actor, he lost most of his most treasured possessions, including the irreplaceable Tibetan singing bowls and gongs he’s collected over 15 years of world travels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
“Election Night” was free of blingy graphics, screeching chyrons and doom-soaked gongs and bells at the top of each hour.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2024
Only some of the few working-class people in the alley still seemed excited when they heard the drums and gongs.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
“No, I wasn’t gonged, thank goodness,” Ms. Mohawk wrote in a 2016 post on the blog Rockasteria.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Those who weren’t gonged were rated by the judges on a 1-to-10 scale.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2017
But the critics have also been saying that, as a unit, the Beach Boys are singing well, and not fit to be gonged just yet.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2012
Meanwhile, as a standup, he was being gonged off stage at have-a-go comedy nights before he'd said a word – for looking young and wearing silly jumpers.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2011
The metal trash can gonged as he spat the gum inside.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
We rode through a forest that smelled like sage and pine, the cowbells still gonging their ancient melody ahead of us.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
A languid, sometimes portentous composition, the sequence of scraping, clanging, creaking, gonging sounds is as aurally prismatic as the colors are visually.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2018
At the time, innovation meant linemen gonging their counterparts' helmets.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2012
The gonging of its bells was so close that, standing on the balcony, I could feel their vibrations.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2011
The clicking of gears that she had felt almost her whole life was now more like the gonging of a bell.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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