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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fine, dry nights were accompanied by the sound of wild pea pods clacking like castanets .
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I clattered down the street-my heels noisy as castanets on the kerb-through to the market.
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If I'd had some castanets I'd have clicked them in his face.
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The jacaranda pods were too stiff to act as castanets .
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While drinking our essential morning tea and coffee we were lost in a sea of women in traditional dress with castanets .
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With the tip of her painted fingernail, the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding.