steel drum

Example Sentences

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At the sound of the sprightly steel drum opening, Lido Pimienta lit up with a playful grin and started vocalizing.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2022

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

The only thing missing was steel, drum music in the background.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson