• He has been asked to stop beating his drum so fiercely after complaints about the noise.
• At this time, it is forbidden to beat drums or make other loud noises.
• The father beats a drum and the son buries his head in a covered pit.

Synonyms

• Long after the final whistle had blown at their semi-final, the sound of drums beating and fans chanting could be heard outside the stadium.
• Her laughter was deep, right from the stomach, and it sounded like merry drums beating away.
• Then there was a sound of drums beating filling the air with its fury.

• She approaches an emotion with the finesse of someone beating a carpet.
• Training a dog, beating a carpet or rug, and washing clothes are also banned on the heath.
• Ava beat the rug with a vengeance, watching the dust fly through the air and circle in the late summer breeze.

• The most expensive is wrought iron, where the metal is beaten into shape.
• The metal can be beaten out so thinly that it has hardly any solidity left, when it appears as gold by reflected light but green by transmitted light.
• The piece of metal was then beaten with some kind of hammer, before being put back into the fire.

Synonyms

• In total frustration, he swept a few dishes in front of him onto the floor and beat his fists on the table, knocking a few more dishes to the floor.
• Toddlers will be beating their fists on their high chairs in fury.
• If things aren't back to normal by Monday, it will be because I've knocked myself out beating my head against the desk.

• Meanwhile, Gregor's sister and father beat on his bedroom door, calling him to leave for work.
• She looked around for something to cover herself and again Noah beat on the door.
• I heard him beat against the door, and then fall to his feet with a strangled sigh.

• The estate staff and sundry villagers would be involved in beating the woods and picking up the game.
• Local lords also demanded that peasants beat the woods during hunts and pay special additional taxes.
• Many beaters like to carry their own stick, to help them get up and down banks, as well as for beating the undergrowth.

• He says the only hope of beating the disease is to ensure that knowledge spreads faster than virus.
• Chloe had to have a kidney removed at North Manchester Children's Hospital in the battle to beat her illness.
• But now his best chance of beating the disease is if a matching bone marrow donor can be found.

• The moment you set a goal and achieve it, somebody will eventually beat your record and surpass your goal!
• I never imagined that you'd be able to beat the top score like that.
• The team is confident that it will beat the current record of 245 mph, and say that it could even reach 300 mph on future runs.

Synonyms

• But it was hard to beat the Falconry Display as far as the kids were concerned, and parents too if they would admit it.
• The drinks may not be free, but you can't beat the convenience.
• There is a more casual bar, but it is hard to beat the experience of eating in the new Two Sisters dining-room, next to the snug lounge bar with its crackling log fire.

• How she recovered so fast from last night beats the hell out of me.
• Why anyone would want to drive at 150 mph with the roof down beats me.
• It beats me how anybody could play such a boring game.

• Plans to beat traffic congestion when Royal Ascot comes to York will be tested in the city next month at its biggest race meeting of the year.
• Plans for a new motorway linking the M6 and M56 have been put forward to beat congestion.
• If you bought early to beat the Christmas rush, it may be too late to ask for a refund if you don't find the goods are faulty until Christmas Day

• The bird soared away from us, its broad wings beating slowly.
• Soaring above the gorge was a large black bird, its wings spread, beating against the wind.
• His long wings beat slow, steady beats, as if accentuating the overall extenuation of the bird.

• It gives you what you'd expect - strong beats, ironic raps and bizarre alter egos.
• The show is a pure play on energy, filled with funky beats and strong singing and dancing.
• There is a structure under there somewhere, with each song held together by a strong beat.

Synonyms

• A pulsar, of course, beeps with a regular beat, but it also has a sort of echo.
• To live according to the regular beat of man-made time, we have to carry time around with us.
• She settles down the steady beat of kitchen sounds that announce the preparation of dinner for yet another autumn night.

• Women who were washing laundry outside their houses, and talking to their neighbour about the latest village gossip, looked up in surprise at the sound of hoof beats.
• After another few minutes' silence, they heard distinct sounds of hoof beats.
• I woke to the jolting sound of hoof beats, thundering down a dirt path.

Synonyms

• Taking long breaths to hide the agitated beats of my thudding heart, I leaned forward more intently to analyze the picture.
• In her ears echoed the sounds of her beating heart as its beats began to grow weak and slow.

Synonyms

• When the second pump had been stopped, the beat effect ceased and the vibration consequently assumed a stable trend.

• Wardens each have beats which are rotated regularly and can expect to cover an average of up to six miles a day.
• Reporters are required to check their beat everyday -- in person.
• Workers in this contexts have similar ways of looking out for each other, including on worker telling another when she is leaving her ‘beat’ to service a punter, so that the woman who remains behind can raise the alarm if necessary.

• Others have found international reporting to be a beat that interests them far more than any domestic story.
• Because I work the entertainment beat, frequent contact was inevitable.
• Because she's a real reporter who happens to be stuck on the movie beat for the moment.

• The beats of the Norwegian Flyfishers Club are fished on a rotational basis, giving each angler equal rights, and a maximum of four anglers per beat.
• We fished a beat that had a small narrow island about a third of the way down.
• Each beat fishes best at a different height of water.