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Examples of drum major in a Sentence
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Before joining the Army in 2019, Moffett had served as the drum major in her high school marching band and participated in a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program.
—Tim Craig, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
Julianna Farquharson from Conard High School spoke on King’s sermon about the drum major instinct that guides individuals in their desires and motivations to be the best.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
As in: If the State Fair were a high school, these 10 finalists are the class president, the homecoming kings and queens, the drum majors, the stars of the football team and the leads in the high school musical.
—Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
Making Morgan State history, he’s also named four drum majors this year, one of whom is Morgan State’s first-ever female drum major, Angel Mitchell.
—Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
The drum major and French horn player helped lead the Anna High School marching band to the state finals in November 2021, the farthest the team had ever advanced.
—Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 12 June 2023
That initial group of 16 Italian musicians who arrived from Catania in 1805 largely left the service before their three-year contacts were up (though future Marine Band leader, fife and drum major Venerando Pulizzi, was among their ranks).
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
The two were high school sweethearts and the drum major and majorette in the school’s marching band.
—Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2023
If so, Krukow was the drum major.
—Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1807, in the meaning defined above
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“Drum major.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drum%20major. Accessed 14 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
drum major
noun
: the leader of a marching band
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