drumbeat

Example Sentences

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By this point in his life, Beethoven has had it with weapons, the drumbeat of soldiers, the addictive emotion of trumpet calls to action.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 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

OpenAI and rival Anthropic are leading a brutal commercial race, shipping or advancing a drumbeat of AI models and features in recent weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Appeals for help have increasingly come from the country's traditional big industries, from automakers to factory equipment manufacturers and chemical giants, and 2025 was marked by a steady drumbeat of industrial job losses.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

Nothing went with the triple-thumping drumbeat but the bunny hop itself.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli