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

Meanwhile, a drumbeat of defections have given the party a dose of that elusive political currency: momentum.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

Even though drummer boys couldn’t fight, they had to be close enough to the battlefield that the men in their unit could hear their drumbeat orders.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly