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• Last night, we all went drinking, and the whole thing turned into a total gong show.From the entry gong show
• That biology class was a gong show.From the entry gong show
• The dinner gong rang clangingly throughout the house.From the entry clangingly
• Even so, the score calls for Thai gongs, African balaphone and Caribbean cencerros, among others.2015 August 6, Phil Harrison, “Thursday’s best TV”, in The Guardian. From the entry cencerro
• As such, a gong must have gotten to the interior through trade or leisure sea travel.2013, Alice P. Magos, “Chants, Gongs and Ancestral Memories of the Panay Bukidnon, Philippine Islands”, in Musika Jornal, volume 9. From the entry sanglay
• As you can imagine, the stench was unbearable and many gong scourers died from suffocation.2011, Mark Leigh, The Loo Companion: Are You Sitting Comfortably?, Michael O'Mara Books. From the entry gong scourer
• When tobacco became available, many gong scourers adopted smoking, just to keep away the fumes.2011, Mark Leigh, The Loo Companion: Are You Sitting Comfortably?, Michael O'Mara Books. From the entry gong scourer
• At the sound of a gong, teams hold up their boards and the spell-master gives the correct spelling.2015 October 14, Diane Broncaccio, “10th adult spelling bee seeks community teams”, in The Recorder, page B3, columns 4–5. From the entry spell-master
• Idealized membranes, plates and bars are clearly inadequate and give way to the reality of tablas, gongs and zanzas.2013, Simon Emmerson, Living Electronic Music, page 20. From the entry tabla
• Scions of old chanters like National Living Treasure for Epic Literature, Federico “Tuohan” Caballero, mentions a sanglay as gong bearer.2013, Alice P. Magos, “Chants, Gongs and Ancestral Memories of the Panay Bukidnon, Philippine Islands”, in Musika Jornal, volume 9. From the entry sanglay
• Her arms bare, her manner proclamatory, she descended Federal Hall’s steps and struck — again and again — a large gong.2008 May 30, Alastair Macaulay, “Grand Leaps on Wall Street, for a Change”, in New York Times. From the entry proclamatory
• And contrary to a wide—held belief in World War II, gongs like that didn't come up with the rations.2006, Bryan Marlowe, Tarnished Heroes, page 1. From the entry come up with the rations
• Claudia bangs, like the gong in the hall at Sotleigh.1987, Penelope Lively, chapter 4, in Moon Tiger, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry Claudia
• The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Chief White Halfoat”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 213. From the entry toll
• These rites were preceded by the royal salute hammered out on a pair of wooden gongs as break of day.1961, Onuora Nzekwu, chapter 1, in Wand of Noble Wood, page 8. From the entry hammer out
• Gong believes the fiber-reinforced hydrogel could be used to create biomaterials, such as artificial organs and prostheses, able to endure everyday wear-and-tear.2017 July 16, Jenny Marc, Katy Scott, “Revolutionary gel is five times stronger than steel”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Jul…. From the entry biomaterial
• In the nascent science of archeoacoustics, experts test the ancient sites for locations of "sonic intensity": echoes, rocks that gong when struck, etc.2007, Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, Graywolf Press. From the entry archaeoacoustics
• Hundreds and thousands of people joyfully beat gongs and drums to deliver their applications and resolutions to local Party committees and governments.1959 June 15, Richard L. Walker, “Letters from the Communes”, in The New Leader, volume XLII, number 24, →ISSN, →OCLC, Section Two, page 6. From the entry Huoshan
• In Montreal, a 23-year-old pyromaniac tipped his hand by rushing into the fire station a few minutes before the gong rang, shouting: "Where's the fire?"1952 March 10, “Cause for Alarm”, in Time, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2010. From the entry tip one's hand
• These sorcerers summoned the spirits with whom they worked, by blowing on horns made from human thigh bones and beating on skull drums and gongs.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 31. From the entry skull drum
• Gong Xi Fa Cai my friend — prosper well in the New Year!” Zhang signaled to his security guard, who ran over to escort Qing out.2016, Scott S. Elliott, “Loki.net – Virgil 3.0”, in Virgil – Released: The Saga of a Distributed Mind, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 193. From the entry safe travels
• The melodies may be pentatonic or based on intervals of a third, and may be accompanied by a small drum called nagarīt and a gong called qachel.2016, Joseph P. Swain, Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music, 2nd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 293. From the entry qachel
• The distribution of instruments is fairly traditional, but with piccolo trumpet and bass trombone to explore extremes, and bells, gongs and tam-tams to variegate the sound.2000 July 20, Bernard Holland, “LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL REVIEW; Messiaen's Nature Worship Calls on Bird Song and Faith”, in The New York…. From the entry exoticism
• Priest Ya’qob held a small metal gong called the qachel in one hand and the small metal stick with which it was struck in the other.1994, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry qachel

Meaning of gong

1. noun A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
2. noun A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
3. noun A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.

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Questions about gong in a sentence

How do you use gong in a sentence?

Gong is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop.”

What is a short sentence with gong?

“That biology class was a gong show.”

What does gong mean?

Gong means a percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.