How to Use snare drum in a Sentence

snare drum

noun
  • The guitars stop, the snare drum hits and there's dead air in the song.
    — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • The louder ones have all the subtlety of a kid with a snare drum.
    — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Rather, the basic Fetch looks like a large snare drum, or a round ottoman.
    — Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The $800 snare drum would be perfect for a drummer in a go-go band.
    — Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • A lot of the backbeats are on the high-hat or really lightly on the snare drum.
    — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
  • If uttered on stage, this quip could be accompanied by a snare drum rim shot.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2022
  • That means bass drum, snare drum, stereo drum mix, bass guitar, mono, and a couple of guitar parts.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • When the team played rock music, Cog managed to beat out a passable rhythm on a snare drum.
    — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Finally, there’s a horn blast, a whistle, or a snare drum in a siren call of joy and release.
    — National Geographic, 26 June 2020
  • One of the distinctive qualities of your music is the snare drum sound.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 6 June 2023
  • But snare drum rim shots and cymbal crashes may figure into the equation.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
  • One person was wearing a Gumby costume and banging on a snare drum.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The latter’s defining crescendo sometimes got ahead of itself, swamping even the snare drum.
    — Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The production is lush and full, a wall of sound built from colossal snare drums and frantic strings, waves of horns and textured piano.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Horner captured that feeling with a score that prominently features solo trumpet and rolling snare drums.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In high school, Paula was active in the band, playing the snare drum in the marching band and the marimba in the concert band.
    — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Every day, the soundtrack of a war no one here wanted — the bass rumble of warplanes, the snare drum of machine guns — grows louder.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In the brief video, a snare drum apparently played by a toy monkey is suddenly splattered in blood, as is James.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Girls in yellow wigs and neon-blue uniforms high-kicked to the rhythm of a snare drum, while people in the crowd bounced along to the beat thrumming from the marching band.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2021
  • The graveyard swelled with mourners and blaring serenades for the dead — the sounds of snare drums, saxophones and sobbing.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • At 12, Sauvie has earned a black belt in tae kwon do, danced competitively and plays the snare drum in her middle school band.
    — Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 5 July 2024
  • So many things go into tweaking the snare drum and making sure the bass drum is hitting the right way and that the hi-hat is in the right pocket and getting the right swing.
    — Megan Armstrong, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2017
  • McCartney chopped a beat across a snare drum and Davis played a handful of riffs, as the room filled with the sound of a band trying to find a groove.
    — David Gambacorta, Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • The sound of umbrellas being rapidly opened and shut stands in for the flapping wings of birds; the sharp report of a snare drum indicates a rifle shot.
    — Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Watts tended to pull his right hand away on the upbeat, giving his left a clear path to the snare drum — lending the beat a strong but slightly off-kilter momentum.
    — New York Times, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Here the organ joins the regal instrumentation over the steady rhythm of the full percussion battery ablaze with snare drum and cymbals.
    — Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • In the video, the 47-year-old musician is seen playing on a snare drum pad, next to the medical equipment and the doctor’s station.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Later, drummer Larry Tolfree overdubbed a real snare drum on top of the fake one to give it an authentic sound.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • But in a Western Conference playoff race that is tighter than a snare drum, wins are the only currency that matters.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The video's producer, Sylvia Massy, took a short video showing what a single snare drum hit sounds like in the towering concrete structure.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2018

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