Drumming

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.

Mary explained the haiku poem by Shūōshi Mizuhara. “The drumming of the woodpecker,” she wrote, “indicates that it is autumn. The season is drawing to a close, however, as the leaves are already falling swiftly from the trees standing in the meadow — a picture that, accompanied by the drumming of the woodpecker, the industrious herald of autumn, generates a feeling of gloomy loneliness in the face of walks soon to be over. Since the noisy woodpecker is in the foreground of the soundscape, it must be otherwise very still.”