How to Use drum in a Sentence

drum

1 of 2 noun

• That’s when his head was down, right in front of the drum.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Dec. 2023
• The drum appeared to be found on the lagoon side of the beach.
  — Kcal-News Staff, CBS News, 31 July 2023
• The bank had been beating the drum against work from home for a while.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
• At one point, Freese caused the whole pavilion to shake with each rapid kick of the drum.
  — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
• Sometimes, the trio clapped along to the deafening beats of pans and drums.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• The sounds of drums vibrated off the cement walls and floor.
  — Kiersten Marie Brown, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Dec. 2023
• Ritchie had picked this kid from Long Island to play drums.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2023
• On Friday morning, the beat of the drums sounded yet again.
  — Kayla J. Dunn, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• The drums feel scattered, mimicking the singer’s state of mind.
  — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Use a clean towel to wipe the drum and paddles with the solution.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• His drum beats rattle and scatter and swell, the sound bouncing off of rock.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
• That said, the drum loop seems to get a little extra bass presence.
  — PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
• The first thing that cave people did was play drums and tell each other stories.
  — Marcela Davison Aviles, NPR, 8 Apr. 2024
• Barker had his drum sticks on it in one shot and kissed it in another.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 19 June 2023
• So the drums, bass, and rhythm guitars were all recorded together at the same time.
  — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2024
• Polyrhythmic drums keep the connection to the earth while their lyrics rise up in praise of the orishas, the deities of the Yoruba pantheon.
  — Helena Alonso Paisley, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2024
• The photo showed him with a baby face, holding a drum almost a third of his height.
  — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Coming in as the No. 1 hottest housing market next year is—drum roll, please!—Toldeo, Ohio.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2023
• Purple fabric drapes from the ceiling, and chairs and drums wait for friends to come make music.
  — James A. Fussell, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• The bass and drum tracks were recorded live and without a click track, something that gives the album a human feel.
  — Candace Hansen, SPIN, 12 Apr. 2024
• The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
  — Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• Steve Jordan, who’s played drums on tour with the Stones of late, performs on the album, though the band said Watts appears on two cuts.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
• Then add some instruments such as a toy guitar or set of drum sticks plus some hats and hip shades.
  — Deborah Way, Parents, 6 Oct. 2023
• Yes, that's the rodeo event in which a rider attempts to zoom around a set of drums in a clover leaf pattern in the fastest time possible.
  — Mackenzie Schmidt, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• The fundraiser has grown and now includes Grossi playing drums with a cover band, 50 Year Storm.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
• The endless attempts to get the right sound for the drums wring humor out of the tedium and exhaustion of the artistic process.
  — Frank Rizzo, Variety, 20 Apr. 2024
• Taylor’s father, captured in VHS footage, proudly watched his son play the drums from a young age.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 27 Sep. 2023
• Those echo-y, wet drum sounds—and just being really synth-based too.
  — Ryan Reed, SPIN, 25 Oct. 2023
• Sparhawk’s mother played church organ, and his father wrote songs and played drums in a country band.
  — Justin Taylor, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2024
• The retired engineer started playing drums in jazz and swing bands in the 1930s and still uses his very first Zildjian cymbal in his set.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 5 May 2024

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drum

2 of 2 verb

• She drummed while he played the guitar.
• He was nervously drumming a pencil on the desk.
• Her fingers drummed nervously on the table.
• Along the coast of western Australia, the waves drummed a steady beat.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• Yeah, there was a moment in time where she was supposed to drum in the scene.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 June 2022
• Now take your other hand and drum your fingers against the palm of your hand and go very, very fast.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2023
• Siblings Leslie Pelon and Clark Keele played the cowbell and drum out in the constant action of right field.
  — Janie McCauley, ajc, 14 June 2023
• How Lars Ulrich still drums like that at 59 is anybody’s guess.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2023
• Your fists punctuate the air, your fingers drum on the steering wheel, your hips rock back and forth, for each of those ten beats.
  — Caryn Rose, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2021
• The entertainment is eclectic and ranges from rock bands and belly dancers to drum lines and choirs.
  — Molly Hanson, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2022
• The Mary Janes The movie opens on Gwen drumming with her band and recounting her origin story.
  — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 June 2023
• Everyone rushed to drum on his twisted knees as his legs eased back to normal.
  — Hazlitt, 25 Jan. 2023
• Mana sang and played keyboards; Kana played guitar; Yuna drummed; and Yuuki played bass and wrote lyrics.
  — Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 18 Jan. 2024
• The boy drummed his empty canister, producing booms and gulps like a tabla.
  — James Stewart, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2023
• On these big trees, the apes also seemed drawn to thinner buttresses, with a larger surface to drum on.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2022
• His father is a drummer, Gammon explained, and Finn likes to drum just like his daddy.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 May 2022
• Rain should drum down in the afternoon and evening, with rainfall overall expected at around half an inch.
  — oregonlive, 25 Dec. 2020
• In one scene, after turning the racehorse out into a paddock, Lewis drums his fingers on a fence rail to the waltz-like rhythm of the horse biting off and chewing the lush grass.
  — Emily Bingham, The Courier-Journal, 17 Mar. 2023
• Related Following the news, Artimus Pyle, who drummed for the rock band during the 1970’s, paid tribute to his late bandmate.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 Mar. 2023
• The carousel also includes sweet PDA shots of Barker kissing and pretending to drum on his wife's baby bump.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2023
• Some Angel City supporter group members agreed not to cheer nor drum for the first five minutes in protest of the club’s statement and flag policy change.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• The sound of raindrops will drum Thursday and through the rest of the work week as flood advisory conditions continue from Portland to the coast and all along the Willamette Valley.
  — oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2022
• Cut to a video of LeAnn and Eddie drumming and boxing, adding in things like squat jumps while drumming, following by throwing punches at a bag.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 25 Apr. 2023
• His body sways, as if possessed by an otherworldly force, and his voice drums with a longing to connect with the audience for this call-and-response song.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Apr. 2023
• The chart-topping vocal star has not been able to drum for years because of debilitating health issues.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Muhammad found early success in the mid-2010s as a teenager drumming in his Glendale garage-punk band the Bots with his older brother Mikaiah.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• As guitars crunch and drums thunder behind her, Parton makes no bones about the tenuous state of planet Earth circa 2023.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 May 2023
• The concert portions of the March 30 event will be overseen, as always, by drumming great Steve Jordan as the night’s musical director.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
• Highlights will include the chance to see palm cockatoos, a Cape York species renowned for drumming out highly personalized rhythms on trees.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2023
• The traditional concrete mixer consists of a large barrel or drum with an open mouth on one end, affixed to a rotating shaft with an engine to turn it.
  — Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024