drumbeat

Example Sentences

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In China, the drumbeat of nationalistic sentiment has intensified with time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

Truist analyst C. Patrick Scholes said that while the CEO departure wasn’t a 100% surprise, “there was not a particularly loud drumbeat from angry investors and/or activists demanding action from the board.”

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

A drumbeat of Ghanaian rain keeps time as she paddles and strokes and kicks to the finish line.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins