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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There’s been a drumbeat of price hikes over the past year, and especially this summer.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 June 2024
• 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
• But amid a steady drumbeat of missteps and scandal, the AfD’s future seems murkier.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• The fight also occurred at a turning point in Atlanta, as the constant drumbeat of civil rights activism had led to the crumbling of racial barriers in the South.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024