How To Use Castanets In A Sentence
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As Beryl remarked afterwards, if only she'd had her castanets with her she'd have been rattling away and dancing a fandango.
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I dream about the colours, the smells, the sounds of castanets and guitars, of old Spanish men singing and women and children laughing and dancing…
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And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman! 'And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
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They were weak, and paused often, catching themselves, in the act of stooping, with giddy motions, or staggering to the centre of operations with their knees shaking like castanets.
THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL
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Like the chaconne it originated in Latin America (where it was accompanied by song, castanets, and guitars) and appeared in Spain during the 16th century.
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For a very small addition to his stipend, Schmucke played the viola d'amore, hautboy, violoncello, and harp, as well as the piano, the castanets for the _cachucha_, the bells, saxhorn, and the like.
Cousin Pons
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Senators danced to castanets; the bishop tootled the flute.
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They were weak and paused often, catching themselves, in the act of stooping, with giddy motions, or staggering to the center of operations with their knees shaking like castanets.
The Wisdom of the Trail
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Flutes, oboes, bagpipes, castanets, and other instruments hang with sheet music, a jester's staff, and a theatrical mask.
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`Probably can't hear it over the clicking of the castanets ,' said Pascoe.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The clicking of their hooves was a part of the music, like a hundred thousand castanets.
The Ringworld Throne
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With the tip of her painted fingernail, the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding.
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Other girls were provided with a kind of castanets, -- two flat pieces of hard dark wood, connected by a string.
Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
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If I had said Spanish, you'd have said something like guitar, castanets, bullfights and such.
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With the tip of her painted fingernail, the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding.
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The coins clinked against each other like castanets.
Plain Language
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Regular folk festivals are traditional in the villages, when the Gallegos, rigged out in national costume, dance the ‘muneira’ and the ‘pandeira’ to the music of the ‘gaita’ or bagpipes, timbrel and castanets.
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Think of castanets, foot stamping, tambourines and bright silk costumes and you have a picture of the fandango, a sexually provocative, very popular, Spanish dance.
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She had managed to put together castanets with pieces of wood and string, which she need for the dance.
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Halfway through this life, the snap in my step is the dull sound of bone on bone, like bass castanets.
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The castanets dangling from her key chain clatter in her hand.
Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red -- "Look, Jack, It's Over!!"
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The greenish-yellow hair looked dull gold by lamplight; her eyes gleamed blackly from their blue crystallized lids (the bath of indigo being a stage device known to all devotees of the art), and her dancing, which immediately commenced to her own castanets and a subdued "pizzicato" from the two violins, was original and graceful, and free from any taint of vulgarity.
Ringfield A Novel
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The mic was also nice on wooden percussion - claves, castanets, etc. - and hand claps and finger snaps.
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The music is infused with Latin influence but retains mainstream tempo and rhythms - so no castanets but the laid back Spanish attitude of ‘mañana mañana’ is here in spades.
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Originally, these were danced to the accompaniment of singing and clapping only, with guitars and castanets added later.
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She is as commanding as ever - slender and supple in a parade of gorgeous costumes while her feet pound out the complicated zapateados and her fingers alternately play the castanets or weave sinuously through air.
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And Jo shook the blue army sock till the needles rattled like castanets, and her ball bounded across the room.
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Mexican Girl" brings in some obvious yet suitable flourishes, such as castanets and Spanish guitar, neither of which one tends to associate with the Beach Boys.
Expecting Rain
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The castanets of her many bracelets tinck-tincked as her bright eyes surveyed the room taking in the surface of things.
Three Stages of Amazement
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La Movida first showed the world that Spain — which now conjures up images of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Pedro Almod ó var's melodramas and Ferran Adri à 's foams — could mean more than castanets, bull fights and suntan lotion.
In Madrid, the Party Goes On, Austero Style
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The Turks made their dawn prayers and then advanced with castanets, tambourines, cymbals and terrifying war cries.
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We dined by oil lamp under a thatched cabana and listened agog to virtuoso folk musicians (check out the boy with the kartals, Rajasthan's answer to castanets).
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Daikoku band: they were to sing the ballads Those with the castanets were the Ebisu party and formed the chorus.
Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
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Other things get a look in too, for example castanets get clicked, fans get fluttered and shawls get twirled as well.
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His teeth were rattling in head, his legs had turned to jelly and his knees were knocking together like castanets.
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Drumming groups may also include a lively mix of castanets, beaten bells, and even wind instruments.
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As they entered, the orchestra were sounding the preliminary whimpers to a maxixe, a tune full of castanets and facile faintly languorous violin harmonies, appropriate to the crowded winter grill teeming with an excited college crowd, high-spirited at the approach of the holidays.
The Beautiful and Damned
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The castanets of Spain have clicked seductively through many a French score, and Debussy can manage them as deftly as anyone.
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There was another set of timpani, another bass drum, side drums, castanets, two xylophones, and, if I recall correctly, tubular bells as well.
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Instruments used in traditional Moroccan music include the tbal, a double-headed drum, and the querqbat, or metal castanets.
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In this showcase of the well known (but little understood) Latin dance form, we learn that flamenco is not just about castanets, señoritas in frilly gowns and fancy footwork.
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The BBC has not yet worked out how to 'recreate' a Beethoven symphony school children in Camden bashing castanets and drums?
The BBC Must Take Full Responsibility
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She clicks out a rhythm, simple enough, on her castanets.
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Why do they call themselves by the graceful name of "cuspidor" -- suggestive of castanets and Andalusian wiles?
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
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At another, with his castanets, he brought alive the feel of a jota, the popular Spanish folk dance.
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This should be a subtly sexy piece with flowing movement that acts as a counterpoint to the percussive orchestral castanets.
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Somewhat like castanets, the dancer holds the pieces of bamboo in her hands and clicks them together, thus contributing to the musical quality and overall rhythmic effect of the performance.
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Dressed by Isaac Mizrahi in a black sarong-like skirt and white wrap-around top, he played with several small, often musical, props - a set of finger cymbals, a pair of castanets, a fan, and even a cylinder lit from inside.
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If you like your Spanish guitar music in tight trousers and with castanets clicking, this probably won't be to your taste.
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Think of castanets, foot stamping, tambourines and bright silk costumes and you have a picture of the fandango, a sexually provocative, very popular, Spanish dance.