A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
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Examples for "castanets "
Examples for "castanets "
1 He even joined a course to learn how to play the castanets .
2 Those with the castanets were the Ebisu party and formed the chorus.
3 The sound of the castanets seemed to make her alive all over.
4 Over her thumb hung castanets and in her hand was a tambourine.
5 And she danced about the room, snapping her fingers instead of castanets .
1 The mill-streams that turn the clappers of the world arise in solitary places.
2 The nightwatchman would return and sound the alarm on his clappers .
3 Down below, the pulses would sound like bell clappers on the pod's skin.
4 But the gang of clappers in the foremost rows of the pit applauded furiously.
5 They could be crooked staves or throw-sticks, batons or clappers used in ritual dance.
1 The game turns your Wii-mote into a virtual maraca -a brilliant use of the controller.
2 The bartender, a hipster with a handlebar moustache, shook a silver cocktail shaker like a maraca .
3 The game featured novel maraca controllers that enabled the player to shake along with the music to score points.
4 Actually, I was pretty disturbed when it came to the butterflies in my stomach region doing a maraca rumba.
5 The drummer shook a maraca .
1 I thought of Tour de France riders who continue with broken bones .
2 Excessive use of cannabis can lead to brittle bones , new research suggests.
3 Doctors said there was no evidence that Warmbier suffered any broken bones .
4 She also started her fascination with human bones at a young age.
5 This time I hadn't merely identified bones and distinguished left from right.
6 Of course we need modern bones , to make the comparison Natalie suggests.
7 All the bones are consistent in terms of age and body size.
8 Bulldozers were used, bones were broken, lost, mixed up, and left behind.
9 Franz nodded, briskly, and said: 'Anyway-who knows-maybe the bones were moved, afterwards.
10 The tibia and fibula are the other two bones in the region.
11 First moving the bones to safety in Germany during the twelfth century.
12 You could actually see the organs and the bones in certain places.
13 The body and bones we could easily construct; and the tail too.
14 It was a bone; in fact, the floor was strewn with bones .
15 I don't happen to have even three bones available at the moment.
16 As long as it takes to help Emma out with these bones .
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