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Meanings of gongs in English
Indonesian, East and South East Asian musical percussion instrument.
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Usage of gongs in English
1
Over the grave he beats gongs and sets off packs of fire-crackers.
2
As it crashed in, the quick gongs of several police patrols sounded.
3
A nationwide campaign was carried on with drums and gongs sounding everywhere.
4
All these gongs are obtained through traders from Bruni, China, and Java.
5
In a minute we may hear them whimpering, and their gongs going.
6
Nobody but a cad is likely to begrudge the honoured their gongs.
7
His voice was lost in the noise of the bells and gongs.
8
People were called together by the beating of gongs to draw water.
9
But the gongs were tolling, and he had no time for it.
10
From the gongs to the glamour, this is how the action unfolded
11
THE 2016 Grammys have wrapped and the gongs have been handed out.
12
The Buick hitched, and metal clanged like Chinese gongs in the engine.
13
In his breathtaking single Bespoken, Baber treats disc brake rotors like gongs.
14
People were hurrying in and out; motors were humming; trolley gongs were clanging.
15
International in scope, WPP has been handing out gongs for nearly 60 years.
16
Louder grew the clangor of the drums, the gongs, the pipes.
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Gongs across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common