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How to use tom-tom in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tom-tom? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He started the concert by drumming with his hands on a tom-tom, eventually progressing to the entire kit.
The basic track featured Lennon on acoustic guitar, his vocal and a tom-tom, with Harrison playing a tamboura.
Each time the teacher beats a tom-tom, a picture of a different animal is shown.
We went to a fair-trade import store and bought him a handmade tom-tom made of wood and hide with a lovely wooden drumstick.
They even held a drumming session teaching youngsters how to play the tom-tom and bongos.
However, nobody should have the temerity to mix any of these millions of potential sources of pharmaceuticals with modern medicinal products and tom-tom it as a discovery.
However, every time Rudolph turned his back, the band would surreptitiously displace a tom-tom or a speaker, causing Roddy to become increasingly agitated.
Not for the first time, the beat of the betting tom-tom has proved accurate.
Forget the beat, beat, beat of the tom-tom.
Recording engineer Tom Dowd suggested the rhythm arrangement in which drummer Ginger Baker plays a distinctive tom-tom drum rhythm, although Baker has claimed it was his idea.
He might land his hardest accent in the middle of a triplet of notes, or rustle the snare and tom-tom drums with his sticks the way others brush the ride and high-hat cymbals.
A pacemaker adjusts the tom-tom of his heart.
Stabby Ellingtonian piano chords ring out over snickety snare-drum patterns, rumbly tom-tom figures underpin playful peckings at notes, liquid ballad intros become chord-sweeping swaggers, and then return to meditation.
Examples from Classical Literature
The nights are always spent in dancing to the beating of the tom-tom or drum.
He resorts to his tom-tom, by which he hopes to frighten away the fearful monster.
They would wring her heart as she heard them in the pauses of the tom-tom.
Muted cornets, banjos and saxophones were wailing out a tom-tom adagio.
Her eye searched the room for a weapon, and found an Indian tom-tom club.
In the Congo they are haled by the tom-tom, which is the wireless of the woods.
I heard the sound of the tom-tom above the wail of the wind.
The assistant beat the tom-tom at the rate of 150 beats to the minute.
It was as though his head had become a tom-tom in the hands of fate.
He used the case, stamped with the group's name and covered in freight labels, to carry his tom-tom drums.
Little Toomai attended to Kala Nag's supper, and as evening fell, wandered through the camp, unspeakably happy, in search of a tom-tom.
Now smee had found the tom-tom, and was at that moment sitting on it.
The actor is also spearheading a campaign for members of the public to become a Voice of Tom-Tom themselves.
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