I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
play
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Power, a New Zealander, plays the blues harp and the chromatic harmonica.
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Clarisa was sitting on the couch, leaning forward as she played a boxy wooden harp .
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When he married her, she was a reserved, very plain girl who played the harp in a provincial symphony orchestra.
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Janir leaned against her back, toyed with her hair, crawled into her lap and played with the nearest harp strings.
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At first he stayed up in his room most of the time in the evenings, reading and playing his harp .
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My great-aunt Clare played the harp .
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Once the airborne adversaries are playing their little golden harps .
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With Donald Crubach's help, he played the harp and sang, and started again to compose songs and poems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Perhaps the biggest thing going was the harp played by JoAnn Turovsky, sounding positively, well, huge.
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Power, a New Zealander, plays the blues harp and the chromatic harmonica.
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Remi was going to ny down in a stratosphere liner with this harp under his arm and make us all rich.
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The third time, Jack stole a golden harp and was almost caught.
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When he married her, she was a reserved, very plain girl who played the harp in a provincial symphony orchestra.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Karl Maclaren thinks the two are harping on one side of the issue too strongly.
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Mr. Lilley Confidence will not be instilled by harping solely on the negatives.
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The speech therapist tells them, in effect, to calm down and stop harping on it and it will go away.