drummer

Example Sentences

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They want a drummer named Charlie Watts to join them, but Watts is already playing with three other bands while working at an advertising agency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

They’re joined by drummer Daxx Nielsen, Rick Nielsen’s son who ably replaced the seemingly irreplaceable Bun E. Carlos in 2010.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

This elicits a slow drip of sarcasm from Catherine, who eventually gets Hal to confess that he’s the drummer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The blue-haired singer leaped onto the stage — wearing a short poofy dress and tall boots — accompanied by a drummer and a multi-instrumentalist with a lot of flashing lights.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Even though drummer boys couldn’t fight, they had to be close enough to the battlefield that the men in their unit could hear their drumbeat orders.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly