[
US
/ˈdɹəmˌbit/
]
[ UK /dɹˈʌmbiːt/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈʌmbiːt/ ]
NOUN
- the sound made by beating a drum
-
a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause
the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq - (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown
How To Use drumbeat In A Sentence
- The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
- The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
- The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
- We do this because in Africa it is the language of singing, music and drumbeats that we understand more than any language.
- Today with the battle lines between the red and blue states, the Christians and versus the secular, there is this constant drumbeat from the right wing that "the liberals hate us and we welcome their hatred because it energizes us. April 2005
- The song is moody and weighed down but not indolent: Propelled by a polyrhythmic drumbeat, it reveals emo-core and math-rock leanings.
- As we approached a plateau, the drumbeats grew louder and louder. GYPSY MASALA
- It is above all to the drumbeat of Wilsonian idealism that American foreign policy has marched since his watershed presidency, and continues to march to this day.
- Last Friday's business news was not untypical: the financial news wires now march to the constant drumbeat of corporate malfeasance.
- If you go to a world championship boxing match, you know, one of the boxers will come in inevitably thumping his fists in time with the drumbeat.