xylophonically

English

Etymology

xylophonic +‎ -ally

Adverb

xylophonically (not comparable)

1. (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.