How to Use cymbal in a Sentence

cymbal

noun

• Faster and faster, the drums beat, the cymbals clang, the women chant.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
• The cymbals pop like fireworks; the groove bends, this way and that.
  — Raymond Cummings, SPIN, 28 May 2024
• There was no bass drum, just a snare and a hi-hat and a cymbal.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 28 June 2024
• After the four click Count-In, choose one of the drums or cymbals in the kit and tap it twice per beat.
  — John Anealio, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2012
• The bass part moves around, and it is forced to balance with the cymbal, which is the highest pitch.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Davis on his bass way down low; Jones up high, on top of that cymbal.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Sadler played on the Leonard High School baseball team and cymbals in the marching band.
  — Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024
• The high school senior is part of the six-cymbal section in the drum line of the school’s 60-member marching band.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2022
• For some, clearly, hope bubbled anew with each big clash of the cymbals.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir and Nate Schweber, New York Times, 21 May 2017
• Matthew Billingslea is the drummer crashing the cymbals, beating the toms and pedaling the bass.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• Let someone try that, acting the martyr for the sake of love, an’ not be a tinkling cymbal?
  — Bohumil Hrabal, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• And his eyes fluttered closed as the cymbal shivered and the piano plunked its final note.
  — Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2020
• The drummer, Dwayne Keith, brought a sampler pack and cymbals.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• The cymbal rolls and crashes spread throughout the venue but were surprisingly cut off by a conch blown from the rear right, and then the rear left.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
• Azar's drums shift seamlessly back and forth between cymbal-and-toms grandeur and snare stomp.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 25 Nov. 2019
• His left hand, in particular, seems to comment on the music, like a cymbal in a drum set.
  — New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• There can be a bit of shrillness up high in the cymbals on cool jazz records like Kind of Blue that have been remastered for brighter sizzle.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 27 July 2024
• The team has a right to think so, one supposes, but even that contract - which was rolled out with flourishes and the crash of cymbals - is a bit of a bait-and-switch.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 24 May 2017
• In the evening, bells, drums and cymbals announce the prayer ceremony, and flowers and candles are set afloat.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Then came a small band, blaring out an anthem with four trumpets, a tuba, cymbals, and two drums.
  — David Quammen, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
• Jeremy Benshish, who plays drums and cymbals, grew up in South Elgin.
  — Kathy Cichon, Aurora Beacon-News, 8 Dec. 2017
• On a recent spring night, the brassy horn from a saxophonist and bright beating of a cymbal played from the upstairs bar of the dark black and brick facade.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• Zildjian has turned out as many as a million cymbals in a calendar year.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• Hanslick was within his rights to bemoan a surfeit of blaring brass and of cymbal crashes.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• But snare drum rim shots and cymbal crashes may figure into the equation.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
• The pressure continues to mount, to bear down and, partly through the immense shimmer of cymbals, to expand.
  — Geoff Dyer, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2017
• The thunderous drums and cymbals that announce the beginning and end of movements.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The competition at Canton Memorial Field House brought in groups to keep the beat, strut their stuff and slam their cymbals.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• Here, everything from the driving kick drum to Callahan's rich vocals to the sparkling cymbals in the high end is reproduced clearly.
  — PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
• The Zildjian family has been making their famous cymbals with a secret process for more than 400 years.
  — Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025