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Example sentences for: drum
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Thereafter he plays a tin drum in lieu of speaking aloud and, when anyone tries to take it away, screams so shrilly that he shatters glass all around him.
Compare the eeriest passages of The Tin Drum with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's descriptions of the wintry death marches by means of which the Nazis killed off most of the remainder of their concentration-camp prisoners at the end of the war--exercises in pure surrealism, with skeletons moving slowly through a well-fed German countryside--and suddenly even Grass' fertile imagination seems impoverished.
What is it about The Tin Drum that unpoisoned the German language and made it safe for moral truth?
The drum (since replaced) told the time and warned the citizens of danger.
A north–south axis runs 8 km (5 miles) from the Temple of Heaven through the Forbidden City to the Drum and Bell towers.