How to Use kora in a Sentence

kora

noun

• Outside, pilgrims walked around the building to complete a kora, or holy circuit.
  — Edward Wong, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
• My father’s favorite sound was the sound of the kora, a harp-like instrument with twenty-one strings held taut between a wooden neck and a calabash body.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Images of the broken kora and the TSA notice have been shared widely on social media.
  — Joe Penney, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020
• Two female Algerian singers, a fiery gypsy violin, and a Malian kora chime in over a rhythm section that knows dub from djembe.
  — Gregory Taylor, WIRED, 1 June 2001
• To walk within this company was to be immersed in milky balafon, twangy kora, and crashing trash can, with occasional sharp squiggles of tone from a wooden flute.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• Called Korapiano, the new piece draws inspiration from the kora — a type of African harp — and uses West African folk tunes.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 16 June 2021
• Sissoko is one of Mali’s most famous players of the kora, a traditional string instrument that was played in royal courts and is now celebrated around the world.
  — Joe Penney, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020
• The base of the jovial groove as the little group walked was a lilting, repeating riff on the kora, the 21-string harp-lute that a musician played with its base propped against his torso, plucking with his thumbs.
  — New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• As the designer sat in the middle of the floor painstakingly applying tiny beads to sneakers, a musician played a kora, a West African string instrument.
  — Vincent Boucher, The Cut, 14 July 2017
• There will be Afro-Cuban jazz, bluegrass, chamber music, Senegalese kora playing, Mexican son jarocho and much more.
  — Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
• The monks operate an agriculture and animal husbandry school, and design and build koras, a type of West African harp that is played during a transcendent daily musical mass.
  — Alexandra Marshall, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
• Hundreds, if not thousands, of pilgrims from across the Tibetan regions of China come here to begin a two-week kora, or meditative trek, around Kawagebo Mountain.
  — Georgia Freedman, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2017
• This set is an electric affair for Touré, who normally plays acoustically and with more-traditional West African instruments like the forefather of the banjo, the kora.
  — Paul De Revere, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2018
• In front of them, a United Nations of string instruments congregated with violas da gamba, vihuelas, a harp and a potbellied kora from Mali, alongside an oud and a violin.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• Six instrumentalists and two vocalists improvise on compositions of Mitchell and of Malian kora virtuoso Sissoko.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2017