Sentence examples for losing the beat from inspiring English sources

The first person to mix two records without losing the beat?

Faced with the jazz titan's encyclopedic career, Cheadle takes a freeform "sketches of Miles" approach, skipping across eras and incidents without losing the beat.

Without ever losing the beat of the verse, he delivers it as if it is entirely continuous with 21st-century speech.

When he came gliding toward her, his arms outspread, she merely offered him her hand and hoisted him up, never once losing the beat of her winsome little dance.

Kennedy, master of the Irish-­American lament in works like "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" and "Ironweed," proves here that he can play with both hands and improvise on a theme without losing the beat.

Over the course of the decade, Coleman had been pushing rhythms toward variability; here, with Denardo's propulsive but freewheeling drumming, he reached full fluidity, never losing the beat and never sticking to it, either.

Sometimes, however, we lose the beat, or switch to feeling a different one.

Just before lunch on the 18th day, he lost the beat.

Foxy Brown, the rapper who has been battling hearing loss, appeared for "Ain't No"; she lost the beat, but persevered.

Taking weighted steps like someone on a forced march, I lose the beat not only of my feet but also of my succession of thoughts.

All of these events add a nice sense of variety to life, but can make you lose the beat if the exceptions become the norm.