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maraca

[ UK /mæɹˈækɐ/ ]
[ US /ˌmɑˈɹɑkɑ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs

How To Use maraca In A Sentence

  • The piper takes up his flute; someone else clacks maracas.
  • I was a drummer in high school and like to accompany global hymns with my djembe, which is an African hand drum, or with maracas or claves. '' QCOnline Metro News
  • The clack and tip tap of the dancers heeled shoes echoed in short rhythmic steps to the time of the varied instruments: seeded maracas and strings of hand made guitars, violins, flutes and drums.
  • The trunk of the zamang del Guayre, * which is found on the road from Turmero to Maracay, is only sixty feet high, and nine thick; but its real beauty consists in the form of its head. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • Recently on Offworld, One More Go columnist Margaret Robertson claims Sega owe her £400 for all the money she's sunk in to Sega's maraca-based rhythm game Samba De Amigo over the years, only to get something always broken in return. Boing Boing
  • Carved calabash or gourds are made into masks or filled with seeds to rattle as maracas.
  • Calling him Barack --- it would not be long until other candidates 'advisers and their media friends would be making freudian slips calling him maraca --- in an obvious attempt to cause confusion about whether he is some sort of central american drug kingpin. Pro-Hillary Third Party Group Preparing Anti-Obama Web Site?
  • Actually, I was pretty disturbed when it came to the butterflies in my stomach region doing a maraca rumba. Silver Zombie
  • We were given drums, triangles, maracas and tambourines to experiment with.
  • They chose to play the song unamplified on ukulele, maracas, melodica and guitar. Times, Sunday Times
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