DRUM in a Sentence
Learn DRUM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
80 example sentences for DRUM, such as:
1. We heard the beat of a drum.
2. The skin of the drum is taut.
3. Where drums beat, laws are silent.
4. Don't drum the floor with your feet.
5. The drum is a percussion instrument.
2. The skin of the drum is taut.
3. Where drums beat, laws are silent.
4. Don't drum the floor with your feet.
5. The drum is a percussion instrument.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DRUM
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drum
n. small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
n. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1 The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word.
2 Presently, when the drum beats the assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade.
3 All at once, the drum beat the charge.
4 While his Eminence was seeking for me in Paris, I would take, without sound of drum or trumpet, the road to Picardy, and would go and make some inquiries concerning my three companions.
5 The morning drum had just been beaten; everyone shook off the drowsiness of night, and to dispel the humid morning air, came to take a drop at the inn.
6 The drum immediately beat, and the little troop advanced at charging pace.
7 The four friends listened, and the sound of the drum plainly reached them.
8 "Upon my word, the drum draws near," said d'Artagnan.
9 See the sneaks come, without drum or trumpet.
10 And he showed the cardinal, with his finger, the four muskets piled near the drum, on which were the cards and dice.
11 There were graybeards older than her father trying to step jauntily along in the needle- fine rain to the rhythm of the fife and drum corps.
12 The blush was not difficult for she was breathless and her heart was beating like a drum.
13 Before they could question her again Carol escorted in with drum and fife the topic of Raymie Wutherspoon.
14 "All right," said Marija, reaching for her hat, which was big enough to be a drum major's, and full of ostrich feathers.
15 The truce still existed, and with a roll and beat of the drum, and covered by a little white flag, Duncan left the sally-port, within ten minutes after his instructions were ended.
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 We heard the beat of a drum.
2 The organization is using the event to drum up business.
3 Don't drum the floor with your feet.
4 She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
5 A long drum roll introduced the trapeze artists.
6 Read the five drum in the middle of the night, but the play fast and loose.
7 The skin of the drum is taut.
8 The drum is a percussion instrument.
9 The teaching states that the drum mallet should not be referred to as a 'beater' because of the suggestion of aggression contained in the word.
10 Her parents had started her on drum lessons at age ten to help dissipate some of her inexhaustible energy. But at fifteen, she fell into an emotional morass.
11 Where drums beat, laws are silent.
12 He beat out a jazz rhythm on the drums.
13 The drums and double bass usually form the rhythm section of a jazz group.
14 The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.
15 The customer had not been waited on for quite a long time so he drummed on the table with his fingers.