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
The 1944 Presidential campaign, which began as politely as a harpsichord duet, wound up with all the kettledrum banging of a Respighi crescendo.
From Time Magazine Archive
A kettledrum and French horn came to rest 30 yds. from the blast.
From Time Magazine Archive
To hear him talk, you'd think I'd been playing the kettledrum.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
