Sentence examples for beat a rhythm from inspiring English sources

She beat a rhythm with her hands on the table.

For 15 minutes, he beat a rhythm on her web with his front legs, well out of her way.

"Our people made a revolution peacefully," the men sang, as a drummer beat a rhythm on a drum held between his knees.

The waves beat a rhythm against the steel hull, ropes creak occasionally as they hold back two massive sails filled by a fresh northerly breeze, a donkey brays from the banks and a bunch of kids call "hello" until I wave.

The key to go-go is what its performers call "the beat," a rhythm that links sundry tunes together.

Like rock, it had infinite varieties: it was a beat, a rhythm, a complete way of approaching music, a social movement that encompassed the best and the worst in American culture.

According to legend, that song came together when Leiber started beating a rhythm on the roof of Stoller's 1937 Plymouth with his right hand and tapping on the dashboard with his left.

At one point the clarinet fades out over gentle syncopated viola rhythms, as the violinist beats a light rhythm with his bow on the strings.

The group's "stick man" beats a syncopated rhythm on the floor with a tree branch or broomstick as other members clap contrasting rhythms.

Dawn, high noon and sunset roughly divided the day for millennia, but the 18th-century spread of public clocks, domestic timepieces and watches hastened the rise of clock-time, beating a mechanical rhythm to work and play.

A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda's capital.