Sentence examples for drums blow from inspiring English sources

With dozens of guests sitting, transfixed, in those metal folding chairs normally found in church basements, guest musicians beat their drums, blow their horns and play that jazz.

In his print The Enraged Musician, a concert violinist attempts to rehearse while a gaggle on the street outside bang on drums, blow horns, yell, cry and piss against his house.

Some beat drums, blew horns and chanted slogans as uniformed officers surrounded and videotaped them.

The protesters first marched up Eighth, beating on drums, blowing vuvuzelas and kazoos, and chanting, "What do we want?

They banged drums, blew air horns and whistles, and made speeches denouncing the company's refusal to pay workers enough to live on.

The atmosphere was festive as Koreans, South Asians, Hispanics, Haitians and others beat bongo drums, blew whistles and waved signs reading, "I Love Immigrant New York".

They banged drums, blew whistles, and waved bananas – a symbol suggesting the country that suffered a banking collapse in 2008 had turned into a banana republic.

It made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres away, a noisy gathering of campaigners banged drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans.

Beating drums, blowing whistles and chanting "Robbers, robbers!" more than 60,000 people angry at wage cuts and tax rises marched to parliament in the biggest protest for months over austerity policies required by international lenders.

Earlier, as many as 1,000 demonstrators also paraded to a Chase bank branch, banging drums, blowing horns and carrying signs decrying corporate greed.

At the Coco Palms Hotel where we took the boys for a free torch-lighting ceremony one evening at dusk, they watched as men in native costumes beat drums, blew through conch shells and ran through the coconut grove lighting torches.