drumbeat

Example Sentences

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The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

Truist analyst C. Patrick Scholes said that while the CEO departure wasn’t a 100% surprise, “there was not a particularly loud drumbeat from angry investors and/or activists demanding action from the board.”

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Without a steady drumbeat of Wall Street adoption, crypto prices risk entering a prolonged period of stagnation, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

Everywhere she ran, she heard the same words, like a drumbeat, in her mind: alone in the world, alone in the world.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau