How to Use drumbeat in a Sentence

drumbeat

noun
  • I could hear the drumbeat of a parade down the street.
  • The chants and drumbeats echoed through the walls.
    — Arielle Kaden, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • These thoughts are like a drumbeat in my mind at this time of year.
    — Marcos Breton, sacbee, 13 May 2018
  • This drumbeat was heard and deeply absorbed by these young men.
    — Time, 4 July 2019
  • The drumbeat of the years is can be deafening.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Trump has kept up the drumbeat of falsehoods -- feeding the lie.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • Thus there's not a great drumbeat/demand from the media for change.
    — James Warren, vanityfair.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The bitter, woke drumbeat is not working any more.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 28 May 2026
  • There’s the fog of your breath on a cold morning and the drumbeat of your footsteps.
    — Outside Online, 28 July 2022
  • Not the clangor of blades, nor a rousing drumbeat and song to keep our hearts aloft.
    — Jess Grey, Wired, 16 Oct. 2021
  • It's been the steady drumbeat that has defined the oil market over the last two years.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Even a bye week can’t stop the steady drumbeat of 49ers’ injuries.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021
  • But the drumbeat in politics and media has been all about fear.
    — John Kass, Star Tribune, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The drumbeat began as soon as Daniels started writhing on the turf.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The world knew Gadson’s drumbeat.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Among the villagers, there was a drumbeat of chatter about their daily bread.
    — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Others may have slipped under the radar, drowned out by the drumbeat of breaking news.
    — Jta Staff Report, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Yet amid the drumbeat of horror, there were also glimpses of resilience.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But the past few months have seen that background noise become a near-constant drumbeat.
    — Frank Shyongcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Making sense of it all has not been easy amid the regular drumbeat of claim and counter-claim.
    — Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • These days, that drumbeat appears to have carried him out of sync with many of his colleagues.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The drumbeat of warnings shows that risks to investors remain.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Venomous, not poisonous, is the drumbeat of the whole weekend.
    — Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
  • The drumbeat of gloom this year drove down prices, but also meant that even-worse news was required to drive them down more.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • 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 drumbeat of bad news for Boeing has continued in the past week.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 19 June 2024
  • The challenge now for Walmsley is to keep up the drumbeat of new medicines.
    — Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 21 May 2024
  • Since then, the global drumbeat to rein in the power of the tech giants has grown far louder.
    — Keach Hagey, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
  • And then there was the drumbeat of recession predictions over the past year-plus.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The freeze, and the thaw The IU band is quiet, save for the drumbeat.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 8 Feb. 2020

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