56 collocations for drums

" He drummed his fingers, for a moment, on the table.

They hadn't got any further than a grand patriotic demonstration, with the military, drums beating, flags flying, and the Marseillaise being howled by an excited crowd.

Fyfe put his foot up on the stove front and drummed a tattoo on his mackinaw clad knee.

he cried, drumming his hands upon his breast.

He laid them on the table between Fullaway and himself, and for a moment or two sat reflectively drumming the tips of his fingers on them.

If I did not understand the word égalité, he drummed the march "Ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, Les aristocrats à la lanterne!"

I have a notion that the Bonnie Lassie, to whom any variety of want or helplessness is its own sufficient recommendation, drummed up trade for him among her uptown friends.

" Thoughtfully the executive drummed his desk with his pencil.

Year in, year out, along the roads the ceaseless wagons clattered; Listened we for an English voice ever, ever in vain; Far in the west, year out, year in, terrible thunders battered, Drumming the doom of whomof whom?

I asked, my heart drumming an echo of its beating in my ears.

He has a confused memory of seeing the wet ground illumined by many lights, of drumming rifle fire and hissing bullets, and then, immediately after, the rush and crash of a couple of German "Fizz-Bang" shells.

He sat drumming a heavy tattoo on the tabletop, forehead corrugated in a frown of intensive thought.

Next day, swinging southward into another sector of the front, over beautiful rolling hills, rather like the Genesee Valley, we drummed up a hill and came out at the top in a village square.

We are just so many cicadas drumming out the hours and disappearing.

If I did not understand the word égalité, he drummed the march "Ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, Les aristocrats à la lanterne!"

His muscular fingers fell to tapping the prayer-rug on the table, drumming out an impatient little tattoo.

For instance, if I knew not what the word liberté meant, he drummed the Marseillaiseand I understood him.

"Thus does the Ruffed Grouse drum up his mate, as the Woodpecker hammers or the Thrush sings.

He once wanted to explain to me the word l'Allemagne (or Germany), and he drummed the all too simple melody which on market-days is played to dancing-dogs, namely, dum-dum-dum!

The trees stood upthe whole beleaguering host of them stood upand with the uproar of their million branches drummed the thundering message out across the night.

Who drummed such nastiness into your head?

Sweet fife an' piccalo, Bofe warblin' sof an' lo' Slide ho'n an' saxophones, Jazz syncopated tones, Snare drum an' lead cornet, Alto an' clarinet, Las', but not least, dar cum Cymbals an' big bass drum O!

The first step was to "drum out" the offender with all the honors of warthat is, with a party-colored dress, and the Rogue's March played behind him.

You, young lover, Drumming her old ones forth from town, Know you the secret none discover? Tell itwhen you go down.

If she could play properly at least, but she only drums two or three pieces and says she can play.

56 collocations for  drums