How to Use drumbeat in a Sentence

drumbeat

noun
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  • I could hear the drumbeat of a parade down the street.
  • There’s the fog of your breath on a cold morning and the drumbeat of your footsteps.
    — Outside Online, 28 July 2022
  • There’s a daily drumbeat banging on the head of the once-untouchable coach.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 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
  • 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 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
  • And then there was the drumbeat of recession predictions over the past year-plus.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But the past few months have seen that background noise become a near-constant drumbeat.
    — Frank Shyongcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The one constant throughout: a steady drumbeat of strikeouts.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2022
  • There’s been a steady drumbeat about declining birth rates and the changing face of families in the U.S. and overseas.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Named for the sound made by the rhythm of the human heart, it’s also become a drumbeat building to Minogue’s best chance to nab her second Grammy.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • But the drumbeat to defund the police has been drowned out by the reality of rising crime rates in cities around the country.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
  • Then the drumbeat — hi-hat ticking like a clock; kick drum pounding like a headache — drops out, and Sonne retreats into her own mind.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Rather, a drumbeat of repetition is required for the message to sink in.
    — Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023
  • That added to a rapid drumbeat of steps to dismantle controls that had been expected to stay in place at least through mid-2023.
    — Joe McDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Dec. 2022
  • But the drumbeat of language may not be appropriate for the day-to-day nature of many weather events.
    — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2023
  • This is similar to how a steady drumbeat can keep multiple dancers in rhythm.
    — Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 26 July 2022
  • Yet after a two-year drumbeat of deaths, even 1 million can feel abstract.
    — Adam Geller, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022
  • But the growing drumbeat on that and other proposals may prove hard to ignore.
    — Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The report comes amid a steady, dreary drumbeat of tech industry job cuts.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Over the past two years, a drumbeat of calls for reforming the World Bank has pushed its way onto the front pages of major newspapers and the agenda of heads of state.
    — Rachel Kyte, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2023
  • And there’s a single drumbeat driving his work: things are bad, the badness is out there, and, sorry to say, the badness is getting closer.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • From all indications, the steady drumbeat of leaks is not being well-received in the Oval Office.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 10 May 2022
  • Copies of the original news photo, enclosed in vitrines and pierced with nails, recur throughout the piece like a drumbeat.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • So with the drumbeat of inflation increasing last autumn, Miller and his team hedged their bets.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 2 May 2022
  • Rangers: The drumbeat has been getting louder for two off-seasons and now, a first-place team needs a deadline stimulant.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • From 100 yards away, the chorus of voices and the drumbeat reverberated.
    — Kayla J. Dunn, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Since its disassembly, a steady drumbeat of Utahns has called to return the arch to its former glory.
    — Blake Apgar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The regular drumbeat of service cuts, derailments, and new slow zones hasn’t let up.
    — Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Gibson also dealt with a constant sexist drumbeat, often from the typewriter keys of the male sportswriters in the Black press.
    — Patrick Sauer, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023

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