Sentence examples for beating a drum from inspiring English sources
"I don't think Bill is beating a drum.
Out first was Ronaldinho beating a drum to the samba beat.
At the end, when he's beating a drum, the rhythm made a kind of heartbeat in the theatre.
Yet Ms. Braun, 59, of Sicilian and Calabrian descent herself, says she is not merely beating a drum against intolerance.
"These old nationalist guys start beating a drum — probably not the right metaphor — about how Barack should let this elder back in and how seniority's important," Burns said.
("Another Lakota practice I adopted was beating a drum when I wanted the players to congregate in the tribal room for a meeting").
This blog, about that time I moved to New York City and entered "adulthood," is a tribute to him, his debauchery, the tilt-a-whirl in his liver and the whack-a-mole beating a drum-and-bass rhythm on his kidneys.
Where once this would-be shaman would beat a drum, now she thwacks a drum pad.
Two chaps beat a drum while old women smoked cigarettes and clanged gongs with pieces of wood.
The fact is: Under the Volcano, with no overt political axe to grind, beats a drum for a civilisation teetering on the edge.
The bassist Bob Cunningham, who played with Slyde, was onstage for Ms. Butterfly's show, with the drummer Victor Jones and Mansur Scott, who occasionally beat a drum and offered gnomic verbal contributions.
