Sentence examples for drums were beaten from inspiring English sources

Other protesters hung banners while drums were beaten, horns were sounded and bagpipes were played.

On three occasions the Chunqiu describes eclipse ceremonies in which drums were beaten and oxen were sacrificed.

Come dusk, bells were rung, horns were blown, and drums were beaten; city gates were shut, drawbridges raised, and stragglers forced to scurry home to light candles and tend the hearth.

When Misbah was caught on the boundary in the final over, to conclude the innings on 231, the flags unfurled, the drums were beaten and no one left the ground for a long time.

ISTANBUL — Drums were beaten, pipes played, and people danced in the streets of Istanbul on Sunday, as the singer Ibrahim Tatlises, a megastar in Turkey and much of the Middle East and Central Asia, made his first public appearance since being shot in the head by a hit squad three months ago.

Drums are beaten with bare hands or with rectangled or knobbed sticks.

In some areas of East Asia, drums are beaten and rituals carried out to ensure that the sun is returned to the sky.

In China, tradition dictates that huge drums are beaten and rituals staged in an attempt to scare away the dragon that has eaten the sky.

Drums are beaten, speeches made, books sold and poems read, and some of our bolder politicians address the motley crew who come to remember the last Prince of independent Wales, "our Prince" as the inscription nicely has it.

A drum is beaten, the reed pipes are played, and a special ritual expert is invited to sing the song "Opening the Way," which will guide the reincarnating soul of the deceased back to the original village of ancestors, from where it will be reborn.

Originally the bass drum was beaten with a stick held in the right hand and a switch held in the left; in modern regimental bands the right hand beats time with a larger stick than that used for the accompanying rhythms played by the left.