How to Use drumbeat in a Sentence
drumbeat
noun- I could hear the drumbeat of a parade down the street.
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The freeze, and the thaw The IU band is quiet, save for the drumbeat.
— Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2020 -
And all this against the drumbeat of trade war with China.
— The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019 -
These thoughts are like a drumbeat in my mind at this time of year.
— Marcos Breton, sacbee, 13 May 2018 -
There was, of course, the constant drumbeat of bad press.
— Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024 -
There’s the fog of your breath on a cold morning and the drumbeat of your footsteps.
— Outside Online, 28 July 2022 -
Even a bye week can’t stop the steady drumbeat of 49ers’ injuries.
— Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021 -
Your whole body is pounding with the drumbeat of the music.
— Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 2 May 2021 -
It's been the steady drumbeat that has defined the oil market over the last two years.
— Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2020 -
Trump has kept up the drumbeat of falsehoods -- feeding the lie.
— Chris Cillizza, CNN, 25 May 2021 -
Not the clangor of blades, nor a rousing drumbeat and song to keep our hearts aloft.
— Jess Grey, Wired, 16 Oct. 2021 -
The challenge now for Walmsley is to keep up the drumbeat of new medicines.
— Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 21 May 2024 -
The drumbeat of bad news for Boeing has continued in the past week.
— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 19 June 2024 -
This drumbeat was heard and deeply absorbed by these young men.
— Time, 4 July 2019 -
Go to school, get a degree, and get a job: that’s the drumbeat from kindergarten to senior year.
— Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 1 May 2018 -
Since then, the global drumbeat to rein in the power of the tech giants has grown far louder.
— Keach Hagey, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021 -
Venomous, not poisonous, is the drumbeat of the whole weekend.
— Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018 -
Others may have slipped under the radar, drowned out by the drumbeat of breaking news.
— Jta Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2025 -
There’s a daily drumbeat banging on the head of the once-untouchable coach.
— Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022 -
The abnormal, yet catchy drumbeat would change the scope of what could be done on a drum machine and, thus, in hip hop.
— Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021 -
The drumbeat is still faint for now, but getting louder.
— Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Dec. 2021 -
But keeping the drumbeat going a little bit over the last decade at times has fallen to me.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023 -
The long rides to tournaments, the steady drumbeat of practices and workouts.
— Tom Canavan, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021 -
The daily drumbeat of the lie, steady—no, crescendoing.
— Rachel Hadas, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019 -
Both authors feel the drumbeat of France’s past, from colonialism to Vichy to Jacques Chirac.
— Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022 -
But the drumbeat in politics and media has been all about fear.
— John Kass, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020 -
Reporters saw plumes of smoke swirling upward from villages on both sides of the front line amid the slow, loud drumbeat of shelling.
— Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 May 2022 -
The show opened with an empty stage and only a drumbeat, with photos of Watts flashing on the video board.
— Jim Salter, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021 -
Context: There's been a steady drumbeat to legalize sports betting across the country since New Jersey did it in 2018.
— Sami Sparber, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025 -
Pritzker in recent weeks also has kept up a steady drumbeat of criticism against Trump.
— Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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