Percussion in Gershwin's "Cuban Overture"

Usage examples of maracas.

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

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.

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.

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