Definition of drumbeat
1 : a stroke on a drum or its sound; also : a series of such strokes
2 : vociferous advocacy of a cause
3 : drumfire 2
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Examples of drumbeat in a Sentence
I could hear the drumbeat of a parade down the street.
a dizzying drumbeat of interviews in the hours following her winning of the Academy Award
Recent Examples of drumbeat from the Web
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It’s also been wowed by the constant drumbeat generated by Amazon for its Alexa assistant, coming to new speakers and other devices on an ongoing basis.
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Lewandowski, now an outside political consultant, has been exploring options for working more closely with an administration trying to escape a daily drumbeat of scandal.
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But there was an increasingly somber drumbeat within the orchestra, and throughout the music field.
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Expanding teams of lawyers and experienced public relations hands are being recruited to deal with the drumbeat of new revelations about Moscow’s interference and possible improper dealings with the Trump campaign and associates.
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Expanding teams of lawyers and experienced public relations hands are being recruited to deal with the drumbeat of new revelations about Moscow's interference and possible improper dealings with the Trump campaign and associates.
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The trip did produce a series of headlines that allowed the White House to reclaim some control of the narrative, but the drumbeat of allegations back home continued to dog Trump abroad.
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The new-media team already knew that their greatest challenge was turning the site’s visitors into subscribers—scoring an email address so that a drumbeat of campaign emails might eventually convert them into donors.
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DRUMBEAT Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of drumbeat for English Language Learners
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: the sound made by beating a drum
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