drumming

Example Sentences

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Kpler’s maps have since blanketed television news broadcasts, social-media feeds and traders’ terminals, turning obscure ships into objects of global fascination and drumming up enormous business for the cottage industry that tracks them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

The York supporters were still singing, their drummer still drumming.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

The impulse to dismiss all this as a detector company drumming up business runs into an issue—Pangram actually works way better than you might think.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Even the album’s hired drummer is notable: Joey Waronker spent last year drumming for Oasis’ reunion tour.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

She pointed at the ridge of a nearby rock formation, but I couldn’t understand her shouts over the noise of bleating pack animals, the squawking of birds, and the drumming in my ears.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri