Rattle of a sort

Usage examples of maraca.

The Yap Flower began to shake Tom like a maraca in time with the music.

I felt like a bean in a maraca, and with my sling, my black eye, and the blanket draped around me, I probably looked like a disaster refugee.

A clacking on the breeze, like the maracas the Mex girls played sometimes.

He danced round the room, wiggling his butt and waggling his body, waving imaginary maracas in the air.

Mabob took it in good spirit, rattling like a dozen maracas all through the compliments Leo paid it and rattling even harder when Leo rubbed it affectionately where the spiky fur was soft, making it still spikier.

He broke again, was lucky to sink a ball because of a rack loose enough that it sounded like maracas when he hit it, and was struck by the idea that a hundred years ago, bars were probably full of guys shooting pool after an evening of loading office furniture and paper onto box trucks.

I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.

They picked up the rattles, tambourines, and maracas and were making a racket that was enough to wake the dead.

I remember some Ragged Healer by the side of my bed, hopping from one bare foot to the other, and shaking maracas over me as I was falling asleep.

The fourteen tapes in his jacket pockets clicked like out-of-tune maracas as the December wind whipped all around him.

He recorded it first with himself singing at the piano, then overdubbed a double-tracked vocal, maracas, then drums and finally the bass line.

The samba dancer held a pair of brightly painted maracas in his slender hands.

But where the male samba dancer held maracas, she balanced a magnificently plumed parrot on her wrist.

I would like to requisition twenty percussive instruments, such as snare drums, kettledrums, tambourines, maracas, marimbas, rattles, and gongs.

Then he tried the maracas, which appeared to have been made from genuine gourds in a time-honored tradition—before having been scanned and stored in the replicator's memory for resurrection hundreds of years later.