Drumming can be categorized as a verb and a noun.
Verb |
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| drum - play a percussion instrument | ||
| drum - make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" | ||
| drum - study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" | ||
Noun |
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| drumming - the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming several hours every day" |
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| 1. | noun | He practiced his drumming several hours every day. | |
| 2. | noun | In 1980 the Ontario Censor Board banned the film "The Tin Drum," adapted from the Günter Grass novel, but the media found this silly, and so the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) showed the offending scene that night from coast to coast on the national news. | |
| 3. | verb | I can hear her drumming from five stories below! | |
| 4. | verb | The drumming of his fingers was thunderous to Alicia's sensitive ears. | |
| 5. | verb | Tom stopped drumming. | |
| 6. | verb | Stop drumming on the desk! | |
| 7. | verb | The rain is drumming on the window. | |
| 8. | verb | Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion, when our attention was arrested by a tremendous ring at the bell, followed immediately by a hollow drumming sound, as if someone were beating on the outer door with his fist. | |
| 9. | verb | More than 15 years ago, Jonathan Bethony, then an aspiring musician, visited Senegal to learn West African drumming. | |
| 10. | verb | Jonathan Bethony visited Senegal to learn West African drumming, but became more interested in working with local farmers. | |
| 11. | verb | I can't stop drumming on my chest. | |
| 12. | verb | Meg is beating a drum. | |
| 13. | verb | Tom has been beating the drum for the project. | |
| 14. | verb | Jim likes to play the drum. | |
| 15. | verb | A boy was beating the drum. | |
| 16. | verb | I hear the drum. | |
| 17. | verb | The drum faded away. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| He practiced his drumming several hours every day. |
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| In 1980 the Ontario Censor Board banned the film "The Tin Drum," adapted from the Günter Grass novel, but the media found this silly, and so the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) showed the offending scene that night from coast to coast on the national news. | |
| verb | |
| I can hear her drumming from five stories below! | |
| The drumming of his fingers was thunderous to Alicia's sensitive ears. | |
| Tom stopped drumming. | |
| Stop drumming on the desk! | |
| The rain is drumming on the window. | |
| Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion, when our attention was arrested by a tremendous ring at the bell, followed immediately by a hollow drumming sound, as if someone were beating on the outer door with his fist. | |
| More than 15 years ago, Jonathan Bethony, then an aspiring musician, visited Senegal to learn West African drumming. | |
| Jonathan Bethony visited Senegal to learn West African drumming, but became more interested in working with local farmers. | |
| I can't stop drumming on my chest. | |
| Meg is beating a drum. | |
| Tom has been beating the drum for the project. | |
| Jim likes to play the drum. | |
| A boy was beating the drum. | |
| I hear the drum. | |
| The drum faded away. | |