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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drums

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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

Events include special guests and family members, 22 pairs of boots display, honor guards, the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem, towers in light, pipe & drums, name reading and the playing of taps. — The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2026 The sound of taiko drums provided a steady backdrop to much of Sunday’s celebration. — Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026 If not, take it to a laundromat with larger drums or have a professional rug cleaner wash it. — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 1 Sep. 2026 Mailhouse plays drums for the band, which released two albums — 1996’s Our Little Visionary and 2000’s Happy Ending — before calling it quits in 2002. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026 In a film, that’s where the music would come up, dissonant strings, ringing ears, the drums increasing tempo. — Brian Laidlaw, Longreads, 1 Sep. 2026 The tone of the guitar, the arrangement of the horns, the groove of the bass, the nuance of the drums, the timbre of the background vocalists are all now critical information inside of an LLM to be coalesced and synthesized into an output. — David Barber, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026 This record has two primary songwriters—you and Patrick Wilson, who plays drums in Weezer—and two producers, Kenneth Blume and Klas Åhlund. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 The team's official drumline, The Pack, pounded on illuminated drums during quarter breaks, while Skye, the team's sassy, blue-haired lioness mascot, jumped onto the T-shirt cannon to launch souvenir merchandise high into stadium seats. — Odette Yousef, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026

Verb

The franchise’s iconic theme song is starting to play, the loud warrior drums about to give way to that ubiquitous melody. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2026 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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This is about 20% of the 303 billion barrels the country is thought to possess.

— Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
His cutter/sweeper mix has kept the ball off opposing hitters’ barrels all season.

— Tim Britton, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

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One of five new Loewe perfumes landing in September, Field Diary taps citrusy notes such as green mandarin and blood orange, paired with lychee, orange blossom and musk.

— Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
The company's namesake and the second part of the land's legacy taps directly into Kentucky's early whiskey industry.

— Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Sep. 2026