Tom Toms

Word TOM TOMS
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What do we mean by tom toms?

A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer.

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The word "tom-toms" in example sentences

In order to ascertain the actual progress or lack of progress regarding recommencement of municipal water delivery, we have to circulate in the streets and inquire of neighbors as to what the local tom-toms tell them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As she says in her book,"The Joy of Ritual," "To some, the word ritual evokes a vision of frenzied, naked savages beating tom-toms as they dance around a blazing fire..." ❋ Jennifer La Lima-Ortmuller (2011)

Patty Murray runs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and has been beating the Mediscare tom-toms with more fervor than anyone besides Chuck Schumer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Slow-building harmonies float over rich organ-like low notes and distant rumbling tom-toms, then gather to gothic swells of sound punched through by peremptory drum hits. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And we encountered other men, fiercer, bigger, who faced us on the beaches in open fight, showering us with spears and arrows, while the great tree drums and the little tom-toms rumbled and rattled war across the tree-filled hollows, and all the hills were pillared with signal - smokes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think most of us in Melbourne are feeling so helpless to do anything of any real value for all these people, that putting a word out on the digital tom-toms at least gives us some kind of purpose. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)

Large crowds of mourners gathered on the palace grounds and “made the place a pandemonium every night with their howlings and wailings, beating of tom-toms and dancing of the at other times forbidden hula-hula by half-clad maidens to the music of songs of questionable decency chanted in honor of the deceased.” ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)

A guy named Victor Iannone was drumming on the table at lunch, and it turned out he had a full drum set at home—bass, snare, tom-toms, cymbals. ❋ DAN GUTMAN (2010)

At one point the drummer stood up behind his trap set, just playing snares and tom-toms and forging one more link from African music to New Orleans, where brass-band drummers attack a snare drum in very similar ways. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And then he started in with a groove on his tom-toms. ❋ ALAN GOLDSHER (2010)

It wasn't easy to find the establishment, but once I got close I knew I was in the right place due to the relentless beating of tom-toms and the wild, cascading shrieks whenever South Korea got anywhere near Argentina's goal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The new material ought to suit the Orchestra's delightfully eccentric repertoire: On their new eponymous album, released Tuesday, they cover Bjork, Meshuggah, Charles Mingus and Frank Zappa with unbridled enthusiasm and the technical wizardry of a jazz orchestra one that features piccolo, sousaphone and quad tom-toms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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