drumbeat

Example Sentences

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There has been a steady drumbeat to honor Chavez after his death in 1993.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

“We hear this drumbeat of affordability, I think it’s pretty consistent with what we’ve been hearing for the last few years,” Jacobson says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Foreign central-bank buying — along with a drumbeat of calls for lower U.S. interest rates and the potential long-term debasement of the dollar — is “very hard to stop.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 22, 2026

Meanwhile, a drumbeat of defections have given the party a dose of that elusive political currency: momentum.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

That was when the drumbeat of horses’ hooves came toward her, the ground rumbling with the force of their passage.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo