marimbas
- plural of marimba.
Example Sentences
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She took classical piano lessons as a child but gravitated to the drums, marimbas and synths kept in her instructor’s piano room.
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022
The slippery way Zagga articulates those lines, and the chime of synth marimbas beneath them, makes for the most enticing Emily Post update ever.
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2020
The former bore the influence of world music – African rhythms, marimbas, flamenco, calypso – while the latter stirred jazz, tabla drums and zydeco-inspired accordion into the mix.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2019
It unfurls on a steeply raked stage bordered by corrugated metal and surrounded by seven large marimbas.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2017
Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the teeth of a metal comb.
From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
