Thesaurus results for DRUMS

drums 1 of 2

noun

plural of drum

as in barrels

a metal container in the shape of a cylinder an oil drum

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verb

present tense third-person singular of drum

as in taps

to strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically absentmindedly drumming his fingers on the table

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Recent Examples of drums

Noun

Two groups of ultras performed choreographed routines of chants and jumping, backed by drums and trumpets. —

Tim Spiers, New York Times, 10 June 2026 The team is staying at the historic Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, where a display featuring Ivorian masks, drums and traditional clothing welcomes players and visitors. —

Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 9 June 2026 La Familia members typically bang drums and sing their hearts out from opening to closing whistle but decided to stay quiet and brought no flags or instruments to the stadium. —

Miami Herald, 8 June 2026 Can a song without readily identifiable guitars, drums, or vocals still scan as metal? —

Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 8 June 2026 During her last show in November, Jameson performed on the drums, while Willow sang with her mom at multiple stops on the tour, according to an Instagram post from Pink's husband, Carey Hart. —

ABC News, 8 June 2026 But the drums contained just 1 percent of the chemicals on order. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 June 2026 Launched in Taiwan last month to the sound of drums and a traditional lion dance, the 21,000-ton civilian vessel connects the northern Taiwan port of Keelung with the island of Ishigaki, in southwestern Japan’s idyllic Okinawa prefecture. —

Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 3 June 2026 There’s so much that has been occluded by the broad-brush depiction of the eighties as the awful age of Reagan, yuppies, shoulder pads, mullets, and synth-drums. —

Literary Hub, 1 June 2026

Verb

Krieger and Densmore, the two surviving members of The Doors, are the backbone of the video, revisiting the signature guitar and drums parts more than a half-century after they were originally laid to wax. —

Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026 Instead of another room with a priest and young woman growling on the bed, the exorcisms in The Wailing are accompanied by chanting crowds, firepits, and drums beating as a great spectacle is made of the ritual. —

Michael Lee Simpson, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025 The video cuts to Camila, who reads the report outloud as Matthew drums on the bongo and offers his commentary on the report. —

Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025 Some of the pressure on federal lawmakers is also shifting to state-level leaders to fill the gaps as the shutdown drums on. —

Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025 These cues told the robot which drums to strike and when. —

Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025

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Noun

The point of using different types of corn in the mashbill is to explore how less common varietals affect the flavor of the whiskey, which if taken to another conceptual level should influence how the wood will affect another spirit aged in the barrels.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 June 2026
China’s oil imports have fallen by almost 5 million barrels a day — equivalent to roughly 5% of global supply — since the start of the Iran war, helping tame already high crude prices.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 11 June 2026