high-hat
Example Sentences
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"I get dressed up in my full regalia - lab coat, rosette and two foot high hat - and go door-to-door asking for signatures," he says.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023
He drew maximum sound from a minimal drum kit, consisting of one snare, a bass drum, two tom-toms, four cymbals and a high hat.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021
Here comes one now, rattling catastrophically, like Max Roach whaling on the high hat.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
I was so inspired by Clyde’s rhythms that in a couple of years my tapping grew into drum sticks with a full drum set of high hat, cymbals, bass and snare drums, with lessons.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2019
I remember the carriage, the horse going slowly, and up ahead the back of the driver with his varnished high hat, and Catherine Barkley sitting beside me.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.