How to Use castanet in a Sentence

castanet

noun

• A pair of castanets from one of my mother's trips to Spain hangs in my toddler son's room.
  — Rebecca Soffer, ELLE Decor, 18 Sep. 2015
• My driver plays traditional folkloric music the entire way, telling me the metal of the castanets is meant to recall the sounds of the chains the slaves wore.
  — National Geographic, 23 July 2019
• Sandra tapped her claws like castanets, and her ligaments bulged.
  — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
• And in lieu of castanets, our drummer Claudia is playing a bicycle wheel with a playing card.
  — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 14 July 2017
• For the rest of the country, the Iberian fervor turned out to be briefer than a snap of castanets, and interest in Dunlap’s objects faded soon after his early death.
  — Hernan Diaz, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• The first movement has the sound of a Russian folk song, but following a flowing second movement, the rondo finale is a burst of Spanish color, complete with castanets.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 17 Feb. 2018
• Ten small instruments, including a tambourine, a castanet and a pair of maracas, are delivered in a sturdy wooden crate.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2019
• Pericet has also revived aspects of Spanish dance (or escuela bolera) that had fallen out of fashion: the expert handling of the mantón, or embroidered shawl, and the castanets.
  — Marina Harss, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2017
• But the most delectable moments were those laced with Spanish flavor, with castanet and proto-flamenco rhythms.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• Onstage were four timpani, a bass drum, snare drum, side drum, a large gong, cymbals, xylophone, castanets, vibraphone, glockenspiel, woodblock, whip-crack and triangle.
  — Special To The Plain Dealer, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
• Jewish, Visigothic, Moorish, Italian, and French styles ooze into one another, jolted by castanets and tambourines.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Nov. 2019
• Their structures were extremely variable—chaotic, almost, with castanet and rattling often absent.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• Ms. Pericet arrives, wielding castanets like a cicada’s buzz, a small creature’s defense of deceptively large sound, and after some sexually tinged tussling, Mr. Lérida doubles over, out of breath.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
• Workshops at the annual festival include beginner to advanced classes in repertory, costuming, castanets and guitar.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• Ms. Pericet, in tight matador pants, did a sophisticated solo, integrating her castanet-playing into her dancing uncommonly well.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017

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