Any type of drum or membranophone used for martial music, including military communications, as well as drill, honors music and military ceremonies.
1He beat his war drum and called all the folk to arms.
2The movement set his skull to pounding like some monstrous war drum.
3Soon afterwards, the sound of the great war drum reverberated through the city.
4She heard wild yells and the roll of the war drum.
5Then the great war drum, or tombe, boomed out the knell of death.
6Like using snare drum sounds to capture the war drum.
7The war drum could be heard beating in the town, but no opposition was offered.
8My heart is a war drum, pounding too loudly.
9Now, when her chain clanked, it seemed to her the war drum had been sounded.
10Lightning split the sky; thunder shook the earth like the beat of a great war drum.
11A hot throbbing set up deep in her centre like the relentless beat of a war drum.
12My little prince, my little war drum.
13The war drum was answered by the howls of coyotes on the opposite side of the Mouse river.
14Full of his victory, Manabozho returned home, beating his war drum furiously and shouting aloud his song of triumph.
16The elephants were stamping all together now, and it sounded like a war drum beaten at the mouth of a cave.
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