drumbeat

[ druhm-beet ]

/ ˈdrʌmˌbit /

the rhythmic sound of a drum.

Origin of drumbeat

First recorded in 1850–55; drum¹ + beat

The drumbeat and synth bass are as insistent as they are ominous.

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The drumbeat of anticipation keeps growing louder in the reports and photos streaming from Amphipolis.

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I will say that the drumbeat of airstrikes against a Middle Eastern country feels substantially different when you live next door.

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“This is a drumbeat,” party strategist John Feehery told me the morning of the vote.

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The drumbeat of his apparent insanity began in 2008, around press tour for his indie drama Two Lovers.

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The drumbeat of the Polynesian has a strange and gloomy stimulation for the nerves of all.

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At the first sound of the drumbeat, the people knew what it meant.

The Later Cave-Men |Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
His voice was baritone, resonant and sweet, a power stirring in it like a drumbeat felt in the marrow.

Wilderness of Spring |Edgar Pangborn
The soldiers who had marched so proudly, keeping step to the drumbeat in the morning, were running now.

Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times |Charles Carleton Coffin
The drumbeat, with the clanging bell, was breaking the stillness of the early morning.

Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times |Charles Carleton Coffin

drumbeat

/ (ˈdrʌmˌbiːt) /

the sound made by beating a drum