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xylophone

noun as in percussion instrument consisting of a series of graduated wooden bars played with small mallets

noun as in instrument

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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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