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Drumbeat   /drˈəmbˌit/   Listen
Drumbeat

noun
1.
The sound made by beating a drum.  Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub.
2.
(military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown.
3.
A vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause.





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"Drumbeat" Quotes from Famous Books



... many a year has vexed the waters of our coast; nor is any army but our own likely to tread our soil. Not such are our enemies to-day. They do not come, proudly stepping to the drumbeat, their bayonets flashing in the morning sun. But wherever party spirit shall strain the ancient guarantees of freedom; or bigotry and ignorance shall lay their fatal hands on education; or the arrogance of caste shall ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter
... over the forest, and the swollen stream, like reckless youth, overleaps all barriers with mocking laughter. On such rainy days we five brothers would go to the Chitraka forest to chase wild beasts. Those were glad times. Our hearts danced to the drumbeat of rumbling clouds. The woods resounded with the screams of peacocks. Timid deer could not hear our approaching steps for the patter of rain and the noise of waterfalls; the leopards would leave their tracks on the wet earth, betraying their lairs. Our sport over, we dared each other to swim across ...
— Chitra - A Play in One Act • Rabindranath Tagore
... States soldiers in trim uniforms; Coffee's Tennesseeans in brown shirts and slouched hats; Planche's gaily clad Creole infantry; D'Aquin's freemen of color; Indians in blankets and leggings—all carrying guns, all stepping briskly to drumbeat and fife-call. ...
— The Junior Classics • Various


Words linked to "Drumbeat" :   armed forces, armed services, advocacy, rataplan, sign, military machine, sound, signal, signaling, military, tattoo, war machine, protagonism


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