marimba

Example Sentences

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He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.

From NewsForKids.net • Apr. 1, 2024

Jacob was nearly vibrating with excitement as the strings rippled and marimba clattered.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023

Kathryn Jean Holt was about 20, playing the marimba at an Orange County USO dance, when she met Richard Koch, an Air Force bombardier and soon-to-be medical student.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2023

Sylvestrov’s “Mystère” was a symphony of percussion in which the alto flutist Ginevra Petrucci elegantly snaked her way through a battery of timpani, cymbals, glockenspiel, marimba, Thai gong and more.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2023

With a final kick, a final marimba concert, a final autumnal lunge through leaf stacks, they went home.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury