How to Use drumbeat in a Sentence

drumbeat

noun

• I could hear the drumbeat of a parade down the street.
• There was, of course, the constant drumbeat of bad press.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• There’s the fog of your breath on a cold morning and the drumbeat of your footsteps.
  — Outside Online, 28 July 2022
• Even a bye week can’t stop the steady drumbeat of 49ers’ injuries.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2021
• Your whole body is pounding with the drumbeat of the music.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 2 May 2021
• Trump has kept up the drumbeat of falsehoods -- feeding the lie.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 25 May 2021
• Not the clangor of blades, nor a rousing drumbeat and song to keep our hearts aloft.
  — Jess Grey, Wired, 16 Oct. 2021
• The challenge now for Walmsley is to keep up the drumbeat of new medicines.
  — Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 21 May 2024
• The drumbeat of bad news for Boeing has continued in the past week.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 19 June 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
• There’s a daily drumbeat banging on the head of the once-untouchable coach.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• The abnormal, yet catchy drumbeat would change the scope of what could be done on a drum machine and, thus, in hip hop.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• The drumbeat is still faint for now, but getting louder.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Dec. 2021
• 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 long rides to tournaments, the steady drumbeat of practices and workouts.
  — Tom Canavan, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
• Both authors feel the drumbeat of France’s past, from colonialism to Vichy to Jacques Chirac.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2022
• 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 show opened with an empty stage and only a drumbeat, with photos of Watts flashing on the video board.
  — Jim Salter, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Among the villagers, there was a drumbeat of chatter about their daily bread.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• Yet amid the drumbeat of horror, there were also glimpses of resilience.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• And then there was the drumbeat of recession predictions over the past year-plus.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• The new color is rather drab and the drumbeat for a Brent Spence replacement has been amping up.
  — Cheryl Vari, The Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2021
• But the past few months have seen that background noise become a near-constant drumbeat.
  — Frank Shyongcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• Third Saturday in October or the fourth, the story doesn’t change and the drumbeat goes on.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 24 Oct. 2020
• Giuliani has kept up the drumbeat of widespread voter fraud -- again, with zero proof -- for much of the past year.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
• But the drumbeat of bad news needs a little perspective.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• Among other things, the love for Streep and Gerwig was a break from the drumbeat of bad news about the American movie business.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 18 May 2024
• Finding space for other worlds within the relentless drumbeat for Mars, a planet right next door, had proven challenging.
  — Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
• Harris' running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, has had a steady drumbeat of battleground state campaign events.
  — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024