How to Use drum kit in a Sentence

drum kit

noun
  • Guys that couldn’t play their entire drum kits.
    — Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Bill comes out from behind the drum kit to play bass on that song.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2023
  • That's when Bingo finds an electric drum kit and some headphones.
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 6 Sep. 2024
  • There are guitars, a drum kit, drum machines and lots of percussion.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 June 2023
  • From the very beginning, Polci had a vocal mic near his drum kit.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And doing these amazing shows, throwing himself into his drum kit.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But not a man who splashes $4,000 on a new drum kit, all the money the couple have.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • There were electric and acoustic guitars — nice ones — to borrow, as well as a drum kit and multiple zithers.
    — Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Jeremy McLennan, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • From behind the drum kit, Paul English flashed his, and order was restored.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The team built a machine learning system enabling a humanoid robot to play entire tracks on a drum kit.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
  • He’s later seen throwing his mic at the drum kit once again, before taking off his jacket and quickly leaving the stage.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On that song, Peter went onto the drum kit for double duty, thinking, This’ll be easy.
    — Vulture, 22 Mar. 2023
  • DeJohnette pivoted to the drums after a friend left a drum kit in his family’s basement.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Herndon arrived and had his drum kit completely set up 30 minutes early.
    — Cindy Watts, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no word yet on who’ll be at the drum kit for Foo Fighters, and a publicist for the band declined to comment.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Growing up in Ohio, Rowland’s first musical love as a kid was his older brother’s drum kit.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Barker immediately walked out from behind his drum kit to make his way to Kardashian in the crowd.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 17 June 2023
  • Teddy bears and textbooks, camping gear stacked against her husband’s drum kit, a jumble of whisks and frying pans catching the morning sun.
    — Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Even Don Henley, who emerged from behind his drum kit to welcome the audience early in the night, caught flak.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2026
  • There was Ringo Starr, wailing away on his Ludwig Downbeat oyster black pearl drum kit.
    — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Cigarette mountains, exploding drum kits, grimy city streets and televisions tossed from windows flash by in rapid succession.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 8 May 2026
  • Malo’s son Dino filled in during his absence — and remarkably, Deakin was back behind the drum kit within the year.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2024
  • The montage concluded in outer space, with a constellation of stars forming into an image of Peart at his drum kit.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2026
  • When the Allmans reunited yet again in 1989 for a tour to promote a box set, Jaimoe was back behind the drum kit.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026
  • The documentary captures Collins revisiting his drum kit for the first time in years, a moment that’s both poignant and powerful.
    — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The great thing about the Saucers was actually just getting behind a drum kit again, and not for guest moment playing a cowbell, but proper playing.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Stiller’s character attempts to match the athletic feat in a heated rage by climbing high and belly-flopping right onto a drum kit as the music powers on.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Because artists move around on stage or might get too close to the drum kit or guitar amplifiers, that noise can spill over into the vocal mix, totally messing up the overall sound balance.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • One of Álvarez’s first instruments was a homemade drum kit, fashioned from buckets, pillows, and other household objects.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Previous highlights include a crazy drum kit input device, a funky magic hand, a row of letters in one long bar, and an infinite twisty keyboard based on the Möbius strip.
    — New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025

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