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xylophone
noun as in percussion instrument consisting of a series of graduated wooden bars played with small mallets
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in instrument
Strong matches
Example Sentences
By year three, she writes, her students are practicing self-control using a xylophone and trying to be attentive to musical cues.
As a cursor pans from left to right across the image of the galactic center, showing a 400-light-year expanse, Chandra X-ray observations, played on the xylophone, trace filaments of superhot gas.
I later learned to play the xylophone, the violin and the saxophone.
After much thought and reflection, I have decided to pursue my first loves--modern dance and the xylophone.
My ribs are like a xylophone, and the knobs of my spine stick up like ponderous cairns in the landscape of my back.
It thrashed its bony arms impatiently and its ribs rattled like a xylophone.
So they began to cuss, amiable, and throw down dollars on the bar till it sounded like a selection on the xylophone.
The neighbouring forest was soon echoing the strident notes of xylophone, banjo, ocarina and trombone.
A very good idea of the psaltery and dulcimer may be obtained from the xylophone.
Saint-Saëns has even utilized the barbarous xylophone, whose proper place is the variety hall, in his "Danse Macabre."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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