Example Sentences
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The cuíca, a Brazilian friction drum with a rosined stick fastened to its head, repeatedly yawns like a distant lion, while sirens and clanking anvils evoke an urban jungle.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2010
Last week the 106 members of the Boston Symphony, like thousands of symphonic musicians all over the U.S., polished their brasswork and rosined their bows for the start of a new season.
From Time Magazine Archive
They pulled tin cans along rosined strings behind fat old ladies and grinned at them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, let prosperity ebb or flow, Still bate no jot of hope, You may draw the longest kind of a bow If 'tis only rosined with soap!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
