steel drum
Example Sentences
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Theory: Hoffa’s body was delivered to a Jersey City landfill in 1975, placed in a steel drum and buried about 100 yards away on state property that sits below an elevated highway.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021
Over tooth-loosening bass and an oppressive steel drum, our narrator relates the lurid tale of her erratic husband, whom she discovers has been barking in their basement.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2020
Identifying her work as “arquitectura povera” in homage to the radical art movement Arte Povera, she reconstructed the industrial shell of a former steel drum factory into a cultural arts and sports center.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2019
A key part of the conversation had been drowned out by a steel drum.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2017
Her heart is a steel drum, turned sideways on the ground.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
