Example sentences for: drum

How can you use “drum” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Swedish Academy's defense of their selection echoes the conventional wisdom on The Tin Drum for the past 40 years: that it made German literature plausible after the Holocaust had made it impossible.

  • The prince, interviewed in Los Angeles where he was trying to drum up commissions for his TV production company, said he preferred doing business in America because in Britain "they hate anyone who succeeds."

  • The searcher insists that the photo is real, that it is proof: "Right there you can see its ears and its drum."

  • "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," from Porgy , has a brushed drum pattern underneath that keeps shifting its emphasis from the first and third beats to the second and fourth, constantly renewing a stirring chill.

  • With a nominally Republican Congress, though, President Clinton might be able to drum up bipartisan support to pass a humane modification in the form of a jobs program.


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