How to Use percussion in a Sentence

percussion

noun

• He plays percussion for the band.
• The marimba is a percussion instrument.
• The Capitol shook with the force of percussion grenades, and smoke rose above the crowd.
  — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• So that was echoed by the string section, by the horn section, by the percussion.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2024
• Soon, the sounds of keyboards, standup bass and percussion echoed from down the long hallway.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• Go-go, a unique blend of funk, rhythm, and percussion born in the streets and clubs of Washington in the 1970s, has been the lifeblood of the city for decades.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 24 Sep. 2024
• The little brown thing in the middle is percussion at best.
  — Joe Brown, Men's Health, 28 Feb. 2022
• The distinctive sound of each section of the orchestra—the brass, the strings, the woodwinds, the percussion—would carry, or not, in the space.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Toto did all the percussion in L.A. here, and Steve Lukather did some of the guitar backward sounds.
  — Max Evry, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2023
• It’s a daring opener because of its eight-minute length and the lack of percussion in its first half.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Mälkki made sure that gong had the gusto of avant-garde percussion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• The spaces among bowed strings, brasses and percussion are wider.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• There are guitars, a drum kit, drum machines and lots of percussion.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 June 2023
• Then, a lot of rock bands came along and copied us, having background singers, percussion, adding things like that.
  — Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024
• All that’s left is his Colt Model 1860 Army percussion revolver with the notch on the handle.
  — Katy Roberts, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• Like the jive of Cab Calloway, toasting used language for its rhythm, percussion, and style.
  — Heather Augustyn, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
• Working together, the two crafted the bulk of the work on the album’s songs, from percussion and chords to vocal melodies.
  — Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2023
• There are whistles and toe taps and yowls and warbles and percussion produced by acrylic nails.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• At the age of 8, Jon played percussion and drums with his brothers in the Batiste Brothers Band, co-founded by his father.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• These were then overdubbed with layers of African and Latin percussion.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
• Vinyl records spin over a percussion of a cocktail shaking.
  — Brock Keeling, Orange County Register, 12 Sep. 2024
• Come out to the Civic Center Library to dance, sing, celebrate and be transported across the globe through the sounds of drums and percussion.
  — Brittany Delay, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• And since there’s not a lot of percussion, that element gets so abrasive.
  — Vulture, 27 July 2023
• As the soundtrack quiets to a whisper of percussion to prepare a swell, the Frank look appears at the foot of the runway, worn by a new model.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2023
• For their part, Mal and May made half-hearted efforts at percussion.
  — Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023
• Moods range from bleak to mournful, voiced mostly by strings, choir (singing in the Mapache language of the region) and Latin percussion.
  — Jon Burlingame, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• The music turns out wild and aggressive notes with the metallic oil drum rounding out the percussion.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 May 2024
• Made from waves of synthesized guitar, crashes of percussion and a cheeky bell, the track finds the duo at their most playful.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
• Plus, the loud singing pairs perfectly with the percussion provided by your noisy heater.
  — Talib Babb, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2022
• But the track was more than just a time capsule; its hooting percussion and saucy flutes exploded from the speakers in a way that still sounds original, even alien, decades later.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024