kettledrum
Example Sentences
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Writing in the Bauhaus Journal, he said that each production required an “appropriate aural expression,” but added, “For the time being, such simple stimulators as the gong and the kettledrum are enough.”
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2019
The kettledrum thump of the furnace kicking on.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2018
Early in the New Deal, having noted the fun the Senate Banking & Currency Committee was having in Washington, Governor Olson began to kettledrum about how Northwestern investors had been swindled out of $100,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kettledrum and French horn came to rest 30 yds. from the blast.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kettledrum of a thump told him that life still breathed within the yards of white smock.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
