xylophonically
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From xylophonic + -ally.
Adverb
[edit]xylophonically (not comparable)
- (rare) As if by a xylophone.
- 1919, The Judge: Volume 77:
- A fox trot idyl of the Orient, xylophonically told and played in excellent tempo.
- 2001, Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye:
- […] while the dishes on the bed tray clinked xylophonically against one another.
- 2007, Ronald Blythe, Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford, page 16:
- Alf re-lays them two by two, first levelling their sandy beds, and I listen to them chinking xylophonically as he locks them into each other.