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drum rolls

n. (drum roll English)

Usage examples of "drum rolls".

She demonstrated the basic drum rolls, and at his request did a more complex drum dance beat, popular with and peculiar to seaholders.

Like most Bloodline Holderkin, she had been taught drum rolls and understood most of the messages she heard, pounding back and forth in the valleys.

Like most Bloodline Holderkin, she had been taught drum rolls, and understood most of the messages she heard, pounding back and forth in the valleys.

The boy had been practicing with the message drums and all the drum rolls for many days.

You will obtain the paper tapes, which I believe are known as drum rolls, from all the towers on the Grand Trunk.

That was why the next day it seemed only logical for her to start one of the children learning the drum rolls.

With the promise that Hal would teach him to do drum rolls after dinner, Buckley put up his brush and drumsticks, and the seven of them began to trail through the kitchen into the dining room, where Samuel and Grandma Lynn had used the good plates to serve her trademark Stouffer's frozen ziti and Sara Lee frozen cheesecake.

John, I fear, likes the handsome uniform, the snapping flags, the drum rolls and bugles.

Rain on the roof sounded like drum rolls on a mattress and beyond opaque windows gulls cried.