Example Sentences

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At one point, in a truly shameless bid for self-referential humor, Sierra is disrupted in bed by the gonging tu-dum of the Netflix logo and an ad for another Netflix holiday movie.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

A languid, sometimes portentous composition, the sequence of scraping, clanging, creaking, gonging sounds is as aurally prismatic as the colors are visually.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2018

Because I need those seven hours of gonging around.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2012

The gonging of its bells was so close that, standing on the balcony, I could feel their vibrations.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011

The clicking of gears that she had felt almost her whole life was now more like the gonging of a bell.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill