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Example sentences for "gong"

Lexicographically close words:
goned; gones; gonfalon; gonfaloniers; gonfanon; gongs; gonidia; goniometer; gonna; gonne
  1. But don't you go far, for pretty soon you'll hear a gong and that means 'come to supper!

  2. Lord Robert had left me reluctantly when the luncheon gong sounded.

  3. I was quite sorry when the gong sounded for luncheon and we went in.

  4. By this time I felt I should do something wicked; and if the luncheon gong had not sounded, I do not know what would have happened.

  5. You went off so quickly when that gong rang that I did not have any chance to tell you how I feel about your generosity.

  6. The loud clanging of a gong was shortly heard, and the tones of a well-known voice alternately carolling forth a familiar hymn with a recital of the wrongs needing redress.

  7. Each morning before seven a gong sounded and all assembled for prayer.

  8. Before dawn each morning we were aroused by the beating of a loud gong which called the men to work.

  9. At the sound of the gong Lady Hilda laid down her cue.

  10. A gong rang through the house a few moments later, and the butler brought in two cocktails on a little silver tray.

  11. He dressed in somewhat leisurely fashion, and the dinner-gong rang as he descended the stairs.

  12. Upon this gong the vavasor struck three times with a hammer which hung on a post close by.

  13. In the middle of the courtyard of this vavasor, to whom may God repay such joy and honour as he bestowed upon me that night, there hung a gong not of iron or wood, I trow, but all of copper.

  14. Beating the gong of power, and taking the others with him, he sought his wife.

  15. Having permitted the monkeys to go, he beat the gong of beauty, and his body grew straight and tall, also his face became most pleasant to look upon.

  16. The sound of the gong in the hall below was audible.

  17. She appeared, however, punctually in the dining-room when the gong for breakfast sounded.

  18. There was a pause, which was broken by the roll of the gong in the hall.

  19. At this moment the gong for dinner boomed in the hall.

  20. Jimmy was flung against the wheel with a violence that drove all the breath out of him, but the next moment he had jumped for his telegraph while everything in the vessel banged and rattled, and the gong clanged out his orders, "Stop her!

  21. He pressed down his telegraph and a curious silence followed the clang of the gong when the engines stopped.

  22. From time to time a drum was beaten, giving a hollow sound, and an occasional and sudden touch upon a gong caused the air to vibrate until the notes in a gradual diminuendo were carried away over the holy lake.

  23. The appearance of our party evidently created some apprehension, for we had hardly shown ourselves on the summit of the col when from the fort a gong began to sound loudly, filling the air with its unmelodious metallic notes.

  24. In the meantime a gong summoned the Lamas of the monastery to come down, and, a few minutes later, a string of them came and took their places inside the tent.

  25. The gong rang, and all the little bells followed suit in their usual objectionable fashion, but the girls yawned and lay still for another five minutes, aware that leniency was the order of the day.

  26. The gong will ring in ten minutes, so you'd better be off to your room.

  27. The gong will ring in half an hour, and after that your boxes will have arrived and you will be able to unpack.

  28. Her back ached despite the supporting cushions, and her head swam, but she struggled on until at last the roll of the gong sounded through the house, and the girls awoke with yawns and groans of remembrance.

  29. I am afraid you must stop, however, as the gong will ring in five minutes, and meantime I must break up the class.

  30. Three hours before the gong rang--the last, the very last chance of preparing for the fray!

  31. No alarm clock that was ever invented smote the ears with greater animosity than did the ship's gong at 6:30 the morning we arrived at Honolulu.

  32. When the lunch gong sounded, we all went below (doesn't that sound real nautical?

  33. All the gates of the village, except one, are closed; every voice is raised, every gong and drum beaten, every sword brandished.

  34. Cook in his article, "The Gong at Dodona," Journal of Hellenic Studies, xxii.

  35. He is followed by two men, who carry a large gong and a drum slung on a pole between them.

  36. The gong summoned them to luncheon, and likewise brought down Miss Vivian, who shook hands rather stiffly, and wore a cold, grave manner that did not sit badly on her handsome classical features.

  37. I'm coming; but surely there ought to be a bell or gong to assemble the family.

  38. Then the big gong thundered thrice for a sign that it was flood and not fire; conch, drum, and whistle echoed the call, and the village quivered to the sound of bare feet running upon soft earth.

  39. Long before the last rumble ceased every night-gong in the village had taken up the warning.

  40. Again the big gong beat, and a second time there was the rushing of naked feet on earth and ringing iron; the clatter of tools ceased.

  41. As in a dream, she heard one gong sound in the college, then, strangely, another.

  42. She heard the breakfast gong and went indoors.

  43. Far off, down the corridors, she heard the gong booming five o'clock.

  44. The five strokes of the great gong had summoned the faithful to the defense of Lu-don in his private chambers.

  45. With the clanging of the temple gong Ja-don assumed that Tarzan and his party had struck their initial blow and so he launched his attack upon the palace gate.

  46. Presently he heard the clanging of a gong from the corridor without and very faintly the rush of feet, and shouts.

  47. Just before the gong struck ten, I heard a noise like that of a buggy (or gig with a large head to it to keep the sun off) approaching.

  48. In this country, you may know, the servants at each house, instead of having a clock, strike a gong at every hour.

  49. When the General struck the big brass gong hanging by the gate, frightened monks began running up from all directions and, seeing the "General Baron," fell to the earth in fear of raising their heads.

  50. The Baron struck the gong to attract Great Buddha's attention to his prayer and threw a handful of coins into the large bronze bowl.

  51. The hare showed the tiger the wasps' nest on the tree and said: "That is the finest gong in all the hill and water country.

  52. The hare ran till she was far away in the jungle, and then at the top of her voice called out: "If you wish to beat the gong, the lord of the gong says you must strike it as hard as you can with your head.

  53. Just wait a minute," returned the hare, "and I will go to the lord of the gong and ask permission for you to beat it.

  54. I am generally to be found among those lining up when the gong goes.

  55. The dressing-gong sounded just as they entered the hall.

  56. He took up his cigarette-case, but before he could light a match the gong sounded from the distance.

  57. By and by everything was quiet again, when another gong went off.

  58. This was the big gong that belonged in Susan's room, and at the sound of it Freddie rushed out in the hall, yelling.

  59. At the present moment we must still eat,' said Othmar, as the boom of a silver-toned gong came over the gardens in deep waves of sound.

  60. The little rectangular instrument at her feet is that used for striking the gong of prayer (+see p.

  61. Page 92--The gong in the Buddhist shrines is struck by the one who prays.

  62. Tis late already, and the gong Tolls out, and we should be upon our knees.

  63. The maid, having asked if she could do anything for Miss Cheffington, and having mentioned that the luncheon-gong would sound in ten minutes, withdrew, and left May alone.

  64. She was still contemplating herself from head to foot in a long swing mirror, which stood in a good light near the window, when the gong sounded.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gong" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alarm; battery; bell; bones; castanets; chime; chink; clang; clank; clapper; clappers; clink; cymbal; ding; dong; doorbell; gong; jangle; jingle; knell; marimba; peal; percussion; percussive; rattle; ring; sound; tingle; tinkle; toll; tongue; triangle; xylophone