How to Use steel drum in a Sentence

steel drum

noun
  • The bar would bend large trees over, and the steel drums would climb over and crush them.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Cramps arrive out of the blue, bellowing like a broken steel drum.
    — Joey Skladany, Bon Appétit, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Three enormous machines with two wide steel drums for wheels in the front and another in the back.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Local high school steel drum bands perform throughout the weekend.
    — Nikki Miller-Ka, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Snorkel coral reefs or tour a rum distillery before enjoying the rhythm of a steel drum band filling the evening air.
    — AFAR Media, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a Kids & Culture zone with face painting, steel drum classes, and more.
    — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • My older son loved learning to play the steel drums and looking at coral under a microscope.
    — Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2024
  • Too many times their fathers had come home after carrying steel drums of leaking trash and maggots on their heads.
    — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Your radiator, which sounds as if a grenade exploded inside a steel drum.
    — Ali Solomon, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Highlights include a silent auction, steel drum band, tropical food and drinks and stories from clients.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Highlights include a silent auction, steel drum band, tropical food and drinks and stories from clients.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Highlights include a silent auction, steel drum band, tropical food and drinks and stories from clients.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Highlights include a silent auction, steel drum band, tropical food and drinks and stories from clients.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Highlights include a silent auction, steel drum band, tropical food and drinks and stories from clients.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Toddler boy, 3, wearing a white shirt, holding drumsticks banging on steel drum.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Highlights include a silent auction, a steel drum band, tropical food and drinks, and stories from clients.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The musher parked and set to making breakfast for the team, a stew of fish and moose meat (the fur still attached) and warmed it in a steel drum.
    — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Sanborne was introduced to the music in college and has played with steel drum bands at various events over the years.
    — Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 6 June 2018
  • Each is a very aggressive steel drum with this delicate silk thread strung across the opening to serve as a light diffuser.
    — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 22 May 2014
  • The SunBurners steel drum band will bring an island vibe to the day with its performance.
    — Cincinnati.com, 18 July 2019
  • Marimbas and steel drums of a jaunty calypso soundtrack piped in at intervals.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • The steel drum is said to be buried about 15 feet below ground, in the shadow of countless millions of drivers who have passed it by.
    — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • They can be fashioned out of a re-purposed steel drum or be ornately appointed with polished brass fittings.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 20 Sep. 2019
  • For some, this will seem as revelatory as exposing the hollowness of a steel drum.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The score also features a lot of steel drums, useful in evoking the Hail Mary spaceship itself.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
  • These are the theatergoers who sing along (unbidden), sway to the steel drum beats and dance freely during the song-medley curtain call.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Guests may explore the Great House, take a tour to the roof, sip rum cocktails on the back terrace, and enjoy live steel drum music.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • The team here can organize nearly any activity, from local steel drum lessons to rum tastings to horseback riding on the beach.
    — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2023
  • At other celebrations in London, and even in Trinidad, the steel drums are drowned out by thumping sound systems.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Chill out with the mellow tones of a steel drum performance on the patio or cheer on competitors in a friendly lawnmower race on the ball diamond.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland.com, 20 July 2019

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