Tambourine is an English word with synonyms like drum or tympan. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tambourine meaning
- A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.
- A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria).
- A kind of Provençal dance.
Using Tambourine
- The main meaning on this page is: A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum. | A tambourine dove (Turtur tympanistria). | A kind of Provençal dance.
- Useful related words include: drum, membranophone, tympan.
- In the example corpus, tambourine often appears in combinations such as: tambourine man, the tambourine, and tambourine.
Context around Tambourine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tambourine
- In this selection, "tambourine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fighting, traditional, lute, man, rolls and roll stand out and add context to how "tambourine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include achieve a tambourine roll and and a tambourine choker. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tambourine" sits close to words such as aar, aarons and abdulla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tambourine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One held a tambourine. (4 words)
Hammered dulcimer accompanied by lute, tambourine and bagpipe. (8 words)
Tambourine rolls seeAlso There are several ways to achieve a tambourine roll. (12 words)
The title track retrospectively analyzes Trifilio’s high school years in a tambourine-fueled craze, and “Painkiller” likens a nasty breakup to various medical procedures like pulling teeth over fast-paced surf rock melodies. (34 words)
Fans were surprised when the 83-year-old took to X (formerly ), responding to a woman claiming to be a former dancer who worked with the Mr Tambourine Man hitmaker in the 1990s. (33 words)
Chadwick, Shamanism among the Tatars of Central Asia: 93–101 Costume and accessories The shaman's attire varies throughout the region but his chief accessories are his coat, cap, and tambourine or drum. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Tambourine rolls seeAlso There are several ways to achieve a tambourine roll.
Tambourine Man,’ but didn’t understand the connection between music and emotion.
Celebrations will see staff, volunteers and visitors enjoy a 1940s theme party with live music from Billy the Tambourine Man, all topped off with a big barbecue.
Fans were surprised when the 83-year-old took to X (formerly ), responding to a woman claiming to be a former dancer who worked with the Mr Tambourine Man hitmaker in the 1990s.
Liam apparently insulted the band and threw a tambourine at Noel’s head.
We've already given you the hint to think outside of the box and look for the tambourine in an unexpected location.
For his part, the Smithereens drummer dutifully shook maracas and tambourine, as per Ringo Starr’s similar role reversal.
Pieces included a faux fur zebra-print coat, a fringe leather jacket, paneled leather trousers, metallic-thread rollnecks, oversized suits, origami bags, and a tambourine choker.
Quirky and fashion-forward, she moves in step to the music while playing guitar and tambourine.
Keep in mind as well, that Goku nearly died fighting Tambourine just a few chapters earlier.
Birnbohm performed on his guitar, adding percussion with a tambourine attached to his foot.
One held a tambourine.
The title track retrospectively analyzes Trifilio’s high school years in a tambourine-fueled craze, and “Painkiller” likens a nasty breakup to various medical procedures like pulling teeth over fast-paced surf rock melodies.
This meant meeting the last members of the tradition, particularly the last żaqq player and maker Toni Cachia, ‘Il-Ħammarun’, and the last of the traditional tambourine players, Toni Camilleri, ‘It-Tommi’.
Accompanied by a pandeiro, a tambourine, a cuíca and a surdo, they created and spread the samba-de-morro.
Chadwick, Shamanism among the Tatars of Central Asia: 93–101 Costume and accessories The shaman's attire varies throughout the region but his chief accessories are his coat, cap, and tambourine or drum.
Gustav Holst 's seven-movement orchestral suite The Planets also features the tambourine in several places throughout the suite, especially in the "Jupiter" movement.
Hammered dulcimer accompanied by lute, tambourine and bagpipe.
In classical music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was among the earliest western composers to include the tambourine in his compositions.
It combines a traditional five string banjo neck with a tambourine as a rim or pot.
Common combinations with tambourine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tambourine man 5×
- the tambourine 5×
- and tambourine 5×
- mr tambourine 3×
- tambourine in 3×
- tambourine as 2×
- with tambourine 2×
- tambourine and 2×