What is "gonging"

Usage examples of "gonging".

They sailed and pedaled all that day and the next and then did the same the day after that At night they could hear the distant pounding of goblin drums and could barely make out the gonging and cackling that seemed always to begin not long after the sun went down.

Flickering light shone through onto the trees behind, and the light jumped and waved and glowed and dimmed--clearly firelight From within came the sounds of gobbling and cackling and booting and gonging, as if there were some sort of goblin revel in progress.

Flickering light shone through onto the trees behind, and the light jumped and waved and glowed and dimmed—clearly firelight From within came the sounds of gobbling and cackling and booting and gonging, as if there were some sort of goblin revel in progress.

Intermingled with the bedlam, rising above it, came a procession of dull gonging notes.

Her thoughts were like a vastly gonging, cracked and echoing bell: WHAT?

Radu jerked back from his natural viewport as great gonging thoughts rang in his (and in all) vampire minds: Keep back!

The thing told him at once, its massive mentality gonging in Harry's mind.

Toshi heard the soft gonging of alarms and saw a pattern of dancing red lights appear on the panel across the room.

The strident gonging of the General Quarters alarm cut off his last word.

As the gonging of the General Quarters alarm stopped, I heard the first sounds of the Tomcats turning their engines overhead.