Sentence examples similar to empty gourd from inspiring English sources
Initially, Sierra Maestra employed the old-style son line-up of tres (a guitar with a triple set of strings), guitar, trumpet, bongo, giro (an empty, notched gourd the musician scrapes) and Rod- ríguez's strong, expressive tenor vocal.
The Chacs, the rain gods of the peasants, were believed to pour rain by emptying their gourds and to hurl stone axes upon the earth (the lightning).
Mitsugi Arima's "Picture of Gourds," exquisitely empty and barely anchored in space, epitomizes the melancholy beauty of ephemeral things that had long permeated Japanese art.
When the gourd of mate was empty, Mr. Mujica disappeared into his kitchen and returned with an impish grin and a bottle of Espinillar, a Uruguayan tipple distilled from sugarcane.
Snake gourd, bitter gourd, ash gourd, I can barely write these names without grimacing.
It looked as tough as a gourd.
Badaró poured more into my gourd.
In a gourd bow a truncated gourd attached to the stick serves as a resonator.
Calabazilla (Cucurbita foetidissima), also called Missouri gourd, buffalo gourd, or wild pumpkin, perennial prostrate vine of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to southwestern North America.
